QUESTION NO: 1 In a discretionary mode, which of the following entities is authorized to grant information access to other people? A. Manager B. Group leader C. Security manager D. User
Answer: D COMMENTS: Discretionary control is the most common type of access control mechanism implemented in computer systems today. The basis of this kind of security is that an individual user, or program operating on the user's behalf, is allowed to specify explicitly the types of access other users (or programs executing on their behalf) may have to information under the user's control. Discretionary security differs from mandatory security in that it implements the access control decisions of the user. Mandatory controls are driven by the results of a comparison between the user's trust level or clearance and the sensitivity designation of the information.
QUESTION NO: 2 Which DES mode of operation is best suited for database encryption? A. Cipher Block Chaining (CBC) mode B. Cycling Redundancy Checking (CRC) mode C. Electronic Code Book (ECB) mode D. Cipher Feedback (CFB) mode Answer: C COMMENTS: The DES algorithm in Electronic Codebook (ECB) mode is used for DEK and MIC encryption when symmetric key management is employed. The character string "DES-ECB" within an encapsulated PEM header field indicates use of this algorithm/mode combination. A compliant PEM implementation supporting symmetric key management shall support this algorithm/mode combination. This mode of DES encryption is the best suited for database encryption because of its low overhead. ECB Mode has some weakness, here they are: 1. ECB Mode encrypts a 64-bit block independently of all other 64-bit blocks 2. Given the same key, identical plaintext will encrypt the same way 3. Data compression prior to ECB can help (as with any mode) 4. Fixed block size of 64 bits therefore incomplete block must be padded
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QUESTION NO: 3 Within the realm of IT security, which of the following combinations best defines risk? A. Threat coupled with a breach. B. Threat coupled with a vulnerability. C. Vulnerability coupled with an attack. D. Threat coupled with a breach of security. Answer: B COMMENTS: This is the main concept, when we talk about a possible risk we always have a possible vulnerability in the system attacked. This vulnerability can make a threat to be successful. We can say that the level of risk can be measures through the level of vulnerabilities in our current systems and the ability of the attackers to exploit them to make a threat successful.
QUESTION NO: 4 Which of the following would be the best reason for separating the test and development environments? A. To restrict access to systems under test. B. To control the stability of the test environment. C. To segregate user and development staff. D. To secure access to systems under development.
Answer: B COMMENTS: This is the right answer, with a separation of the two environments (Test and development), we can get a more stable and more “in control” environment, Since we are making tests in the development environment, we don’t want our production processes there, we don’t want to experiment things in our production processes. With a separation of the environments we can get a more risk free pr oduction environment and more control and flexibility over the test environment for the developers.
QUESTION NO: 5 Which of the following statements pertaining to dealing with the media after a disaster occurred and disturbed the organizations activities is incorrect? A. The CEO should always be the spokesperson for the company during a disaster. B. The disaster recover plan must include how the media is to be handled during the disaster. C. The organization’s spokesperson should report bad news before the press gets a hold of it through another channel. D. An emergency press conference site should be planned ahead.
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Answer: A COMMENTS: This is not a good practice, we cannot involves the CEO of the company to deal with the media in every case we have a disaster, depending on the severity of the disaster we can make the CEO talk, but the best practice in the real world is to have a well-known person with that role, with special speaking capabilities and knowledge about press methods. In general, the CEO always gets news of what happened, and he decides the company politics, then another designed employee (Usually from the disaster recovery team) deals with the media.
QUESTION NO: 6 Which Orange book security rating introduces security labels? A. C2 B. B1 C. B2 D. B3 Answer: B COMMENTS: Class (B1) or “Labeled Security Protection” systems require all the features required for class (C2). In addition, an informal statement of the security policy model, data labeling, and mandatory access control over named subjects and objects must be present. The capability must exist for accurately labeling exported information. Any flaws identified by testing must be removed.
QUESTION NO: 7 A Business Impact Analysis (BIA) does not: A. Recommend the appropriate recovery solution. B. Determine critical and necessary business functions and their resource dependencies. C. Identify critical computer applications and the associated outage tolerance. D. Estimate the financial impact of a disruption. Answer: A COMMENTS: Remember that when we talk about a BIA (Business Impact Analysis), we are analyzing and identifying possible issues about our infrastructure, in this kind of analysis we don’t make suggestions about what to do to recover from them. This is not an action plan, It’s an analysis about the business, the process that it relays on, the level of the systems and a estimative of the financial impact, or in other words, how much many we loose with our systems down.
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QUESTION NO: 8 Which access control model enables the owner of the resource to specify what subjects can access specific resources? A. Discretionary Access Control B. Mandatory Access Control C. Sensitive Access Control D. Role -based Access Control
Answer: A COMMENTS: Discretionary Access Control (DAC) is used to control access by restricting a subject's access to an object. It is generally used to limit a user's access to a file. In this type of access control it is the owner of the file who controls other users' accesses to the file. Using a DAC mechanism allows users control over access rights to their files. When these rights are managed correctly, only those users specified by the owner may have some combination of read, write, execute, etc. permissions to the file.
QUESTION NO: 9 What type of cable is used with 100Base-TX Fast Ethernet? A. Fiber-optic cable B. Four pairs of Category 3, 4 or 5 unshielded twisted-par (UTP) wires. C. Two pairs of Category 5 unshielded twisted-pair (UTP) or Category 1 shielded twisted-pair (STP) wires. D. RG.58 cable. Answer: C COMMENTS: 100BaseTX is a 100-Mbps baseband Fast Ethernet specification using two pairs of either UTP or STP wiring. The first pair of wires is used to receive data; the second is used to transmit. To guarantee proper signal timing, a 100BaseTX segment cannot exceed 100 meters in length. This specification of Ethernet is based on the IEEE 802.3 standard.
QUESTION NO: 10 Which of the following best describes the Secure Electronic Transaction (SET) protocol? A. Originated by VISA and MasterCard as an Internet credit card protocol. B. Originated by VISA and MasterCard as an Internet credit card protocol using digital signatures. C. Originated by VISA and MasterCard as an Internet credit card protocol using the transport layer. D. Originated by VISA and MasterCard as an Internet credit card protocol using SSL.
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Answer: B COMMENTS: This protocol was created by VISA and MasterCard as a common effort to make the buying process over the Internet secure through the distribution line of those companies. It is located in layer 7 of the OSI model. SET uses a system of locks and keys along with certified account IDs for both consumers and merchants. Then, through a unique process of "encrypting" or scrambling the information exchanged between the shopper and the online store, SET ensures a payment process that is convenient, private and most of all secure. Specifically, SET: 1. Establishes industry standards to keep your order and payment information confidential. 2. Increases integrity for all transmitted data through encryption. 3. Provides authentication that a cardholder is a legitimate user of a branded payment card account. 4. Provides authentication that a mercha nt can accept branded payment card transactions through its relationship with an acquiring financial institution. 5. Allows the use of the best security practices and system design techniques to protect all legitimate parties in an electronic commerce transaction. The SET process relies strongly on the use of certificates and digital signatures for the process of authentication and integrity of the information.
QUESTION NO: 11 At which of the following phases of a software development life cycle are security and access controls normally designed? A. Coding B. Product design C. Software plans and requirements D. Detailed design
Answer: D COMMENTS: Security controls and access controls are normally designed in the “Detailed” phase of design. In this phase you have the design of many of the security features of your development like authentication, confidentiality functionality, non repudiation capabilities. In this phase you can also define what is going to be the access control method for the software, we can make it discretionary (less restrictive), mandatory (more restrictive), role based and others.
QUESTION NO: 12 Which type of control would password management classify as? A. Compensating control B. Detective control
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C. Preventive control D. Technical control
Answer: C COMMENTS: Preventive technical controls are used to prevent unauthorized personnel or programs from gaining remote access to computing resources. Examples of these controls include: • Access control software. • Antivirus software. • Library control systems. • Passwords and Password management. • Smart cards. • Encryption. • Dial-up access control and callback systems. About Passwords: Passwords are used to verify that the user of an ID is the owner of the ID. The IDpassword combination is unique to each user and therefore provides a means of holding users accountable for their activity on the system. Fixed passwords that are used for a defined period of time are often easy for hackers to compromise; therefore, great care must be exercised to ensure that these passwords do not appear in any dictionary. Fixed passwords are often used to control access to specific data bases. In this use, however, all persons who have authorized access to the data base use the same password; therefore, no accountability can be achieved. Currently, dynamic or one-time passwords, which are different for each log-on, are preferred over fixed passwords. Dynamic passwords are created by a token that is programmed to generate passwords randomly. The management of those passwords is part of Preventive control.
QUESTION NO: 13 Due are is not related to: A. Good faith B. Prudent man C. Profit D. Best interest Answer: C COMMENTS: This is obviously a term not related to Profit, a “due” is not going to give us profit, its going to give us the opposite. Its always a good practice to pay your due. This can be learned in the real life. A Prudent man always pays its due, also a Good faith men pays them. This term is not related to profit.
QUESTION NO: 14 Which of the following is not an Orange Book-defined life cycle assurance requirement?
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A. Security testing B. Design specification and testing C. Trusted distribution D. System integrity
Answer: D COMMENTS: As stated in the Orange Book from the National Computer Security Center. The following is a sample list of what shall be identified and maintained under configuration management: * the baseline TCB including hardware, software, and fir mware * any changes to the TCB hardware, software, and firmware since the previous baseline * design and user documentation * software tests including functional and system integrity tests * tools used for generating current configuration items (required at TCSEC class A1 only) Configuration management procedures should make it possible to accurately reproduce any past TCB configuration. In the event a security vulnerability is discovered in a version of the TCB other than the most current one, analysts will need to be able to reconstruct the past environment. As we can see, Answer D is not part of the life cycle assurance, its part of Configuration management.
QUESTION NO: 15 What is another name for the Orange Book? A. The Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria (TCSEC) B. The Trusted Computing Base (TCB) C. The Information Technology Security Evaluation Criteria (ITSEC) D. The Common Criteria Answer: A COMMENTS: The Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria (TCSEC) is a collection of criteria used to grade or rate the security offered by a computer system product. The TCSEC is sometimes referred to as "the Orange Book" because of its orange cover. The current version is dated 1985 (DOD 5200.28-STD, Library No.S225,711) The TCSEC, its interpretations and guidelines all have different color covers, and are sometimes known as the "Rainbow Series".
QUESTION NO: 16 A password that is the same for each log-on session is called a? A. “one-time password” B. “two-time password” C. static password D. dynamic password
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Answer: C COMMENTS: A Static password is one that remains the same until its changed. Its like the password that we use in the operating systems, you set it, and then you always use the same password to logon to the system for the time of the session. This password will give us access to the system and will be the vehicle to create our access token in a successful way to get our privileges. A one-time password is only valid for one use, dynamic ones change every certain condition is met, and two-time passwords can only be used two times. We can provide certain times of access with this kind of passwords.
QUESTION NO: 17 Which of the following backup methods is most appropriate for off-site archiving? A. Incremental backup method. B. Off-site backup method. C. Full backup method. D. Differential backup method. Answer: C COMMENTS: Since we want to maintain the backups offsite, its always better to send FULL-Backups because they contain a consistent base of the system. We perform the beginning of a restore through a full backup. Remember that the backups stored offsite are in most cases in a secure place, full backup in there are a best practice for any network administrator. With incremental or differential backups we don’t have all we need to restore a system to a consistent state. We need to start from the full backup. “Offsite Backup” is not a valid backup method.
QUESTION NO: 18 Which of the following is not a weakness of symmetric cryptography? A. Limited security B. Key distribution C. Speed D. Scalability Answer: C COMMENTS: In secret key cryptography, a single key is used for both encryption and decryption. The sender uses the key (or some set of rules) to encrypt the plaintext and sends the cipher text to the receiver. The receiver applies the same key (or rule set) to decrypt the message and recover the plaintext. Because a single key is used for both functions, secret key cryptography is also called symmetric encryption.
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With this form of cryptography, it is obvious that the key must be known to both the sender and the receiver; that, in fact, is the secret. The biggest difficulty with this approach, of course, is the distribution of the key. Symmetric encryption is around 1000 times faster than Asymmetric encryption, the second is commonly used just to encrypt the keys for Symmetric Cryptography.
QUESTION NO: 19 Which of the following is not a defined layer in the TCP/IP protocol model? A. Application layer B. Session layer C. Internet layer D. Network access layer Answer: B COMMENTS: The TCP/IP reference model is the network model used in the current Internet architecture. It has its origins back in the 1960's with the grandfather of the Internet, the ARPANET. This was a research network sponsored by the Department of Defense in the United States. The reference model was named after two of its main protocols, TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) and IP (Internet Protocol). They choose to build a packet-switched network based on a connectionless internet layer. Here is a representation of it:
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QUESTION NO: 20 Rewritable and erasable (CDR/W) optical disk are sometimes used for backups that require short time storage for changeable data, but require? A. Faster file access than tape. B. Slower file access than tape. C. Slower file access than drive. D. Slower file access than scale.
Answer: A COMMENTS: This is true, when we use optical media like CD´s to make our backups we need a constant throughput on the file access and data transfer inside the disk because of the risk to get a buffer overrun error in the CD writer. If the buffer user by the CD burner is empty and the Hard disk does not provide data for that time, the Backup will be unsuccessful. This can be solved with a Technology known as “Burn Proof”.
QUESTION NO: 21 Which one of the following is not a primary component or aspect of firewall systems? A. Protocol filtering B. Packet switching C. Rule enforcement engine D. Extended logging capability Answer: B COMMENTS: This is not a main function of a firewall, packet switching is a main feature of a Switch (working only in the layer 2 of the OSI model). Firewall are network security devices that can function through layer 2 to layer 7 of the OSI model. They usually include rule engine that enforce the enterprise security policy of the company. They provide protocol filtering to enforce our requirements through the forwarded or deny of traffic. They also provide logging capabilities so we can analyze what is happening in a very low level in our network.
QUESTION NO: 22 What are database views used for? A. To ensure referential integrity. B. To allow easier access to data in a database. C. To restrict user access to data in a database. D. To provide audit trails.
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Answer: C COMMENTS: Through the use of a view we can provide security for the organization restricting users access to certain data or to the real tables containing the information in our database. For example, we can create a view that brings data from 3 tables, only showing 2 of the 4 columns in each. Instead of giving access to the tables that contain the information, we give access to the view, so the user can access this fixed information but does not have privileges over the tables containing it. This provides security.
QUESTION NO: 23 Which of the following Common Data Network Services is used to send and receive email internally or externally through an email gateway device? A. File services B. Mail services C. Print services D. Client/Server services
Answer: B COMMENTS: This functionality is provided through mail services, this service permits collaboration between users in an internal and external level. We usually use two protocols, “SMTP” in port TCP 25 to send the emails and “POP3” in port TCP 110 to receive them. Currently there is another protocol that is gaining popularity, it is “IMAP4”. Print services are used for printing documents and file services are used to share and access files and folders inside the infrastructure.
QUESTION NO: 24 Intrusion detection has which of the following sets of characteristics. A. It is adaptive rather than preventive. B. It is administrative rather than preventive. C. It is disruptive rather than preventative. D. It is detective rather than preventative. Answer: D COMMENTS: This is one of the features of intrusion detections, instead of being pro-active, it has a reactive behavior. When we set an IDS system inside of our network or hosts, the IDS agent is constantly monitoring in real time what activities are being performed in the infrastructure. If the IDS founds a malicious activity taking place it can take actions against it like disabling interfaces, alerting the administrators or sending network attacks to the source to put it out of service. As a difference to the detective behavior of IDS, we can also increase the security with practices like hardening our systems ,this is considered a preventive practice.
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QUESTION NO: 25 Which type of password provides maximum security because a new password is required for each now log-on is defined to as? A. One-time or dynamic password B. Cognitive password C. Static password D. Pass phrase Answer: A COMMENTS: “One-time” or “dynamic” password technology concept is having your remote host already know a password that is not going to go over insecure channels and when you connect, you get a challenge. You take the challenge information and password and plug it into an algorithm which generates the response that should get the same answer if the password is the same on the both sides. Therefore the password never goes over the network, nor is the same challenge used twice. Unlike SecurID or SNK, with S/key you do not share a secret with the host. Other one time password technology is card systems where each user gets a card that generates numbers that allow access to their account. Without the card, it is improbable to guess the numbers.
QUESTION NO: 26 They in form of credit card-size memory cards or smart cards, or those resembling small calculators, are used to supply static and dynamic passwords are called? A. Token Ring B. Tokens C. Token passing networks D. Coupons
Answer: B COMMENTS: Tokens are usually used to provide authentication through “What we have”, is most commonly implemented to provide two-factor authentication. For example, SecurID requires two pieces of information, a password and a token. The token is usually generated by the SecurID token – a small electronic device that users keep with them that display a new number every 60 seconds. Combining this number with the users password allows the SecurID server to determine whatever or not the user should be granted access.
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QUESTION NO: 27 Which of the following uses a directed graph to specify the rights that a subject can transfer to an object, or that a subject can take from another subject? A. Take-Grant model B. Access Matrix model C. Biba model D. Bell-Lapadula model
Answer: A COMMENTS: The Take-Grant System is a model that helps in determining the protection rights (e.g., read or write) in a computer system. The Take-Grant system was introduced by Jones, Lipton, and Snyder to show that it is possible to decide on the safety of a computer system even when the number of subjects and objects are very large, or unbound. This can be accomplished in linear time based on the initial size of the system. The take-grant system models a protection system which consists of a set of states and state transitions. A directed graph shows the connections between the nodes of this system. These nodes are representative of the subjects or objects of the model. The directed edges between the nodes represent the rights that one node has over the linked node.
QUESTION NO: 28 Which of the following is the BEST way to prevent software license violations? A. Implementing a corporate policy on copyright infringements and software use. B. Requiring that all PCs be diskless workstations. C. Installing metering software on the LAN so applications can be accessed through the metered software. D. Regularly scanning used PCs to ensure that unauthorized copies of software have not been loaded on the PC. Answer: D COMMENTS: Since its impossible to control all the efforts of the users to install software without the proper licenses in their PC´s (Specially downloaded from the Internet), the best way to prevent licenses violations is through regular audit to every single user PC to see what’s the installed programs are and what’s the nature of them (Shareware, freeware, licensed). We cant use LAN monitoring software because not all the applications are network enabled, also, there is usually a policy about software installation, but the users do not rely on them many times. It also a very nice practice to punish the users making software license violations.
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Zip/Jaz drives, SyQuest, and Bemoulli boxes are very transportable and are often the standard for? A. Data exchange in many businesses. B. Data change in many businesses. C. Data compression in many businesses. D. Data interchange in many businesses. Answer: A COMMENTS: This is the primary use of this kind of devices, since they are very portable (a medium-size external box) and they provide standard interfaces to the PC, they are usually used in data exchange because of their high capacity in comparison to the 3.5 floppy diskettes. We can make changes in the media used by this devices, but is not their primary use. Compression is not the best feature of this devices, their usually depend on File system compression. Absolutely, the best use of this boxes is for data exchange.
QUESTION NO: 30 What are two types of system assurance? A. Operational Assurance and Architecture Assurance. B. Design Assurance and Implementation Assurance. C. Architecture Assurance and Implementation Assurance. D. Operational Assurance and Life-Cycle Assurance. Answer: D COMMENTS: Software Systems Quality Assurance (SQA) is defined as a planned and systematic approach to the evaluation of the quality of and adherence to software product standards, processes, and procedures. SQA includes the process of assuring that standards and procedures are established and are followed throughout the software acquisition life cycle. Compliance with agreed-upon standards and procedures is evaluated through process monitoring, product evaluation, and audits. Software development and control processes should include quality assurance approval points, where an SQA evaluation of the product may be done in relation to the applicable standards. The 2 types available are : Operational assurance (that specified that the operation compiles with the required) and Life-Cycle assurance (that specifies that the system has passed through all the Software life-cycle).
QUESTION NO: 31 Why does compiled code pose more risk than interpreted code? A. Because malicious code can be embedded in the compiled code and can be difficult to detect. B. Because the browser can safely execute all interpreted applets. C. Because compilers are not reliable. D. It does not. Interpreted code poses more risk than compiled code.
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Answer: A COMMENTS: Since the compiled code has already been translated to binary language (the language understanded natively by the computers), its very difficult for us (the humans) to detect malicious code inside an application, this is because its not apparently visible, you have to find that malicious code through the behavior of the program. Instead, when we talk about Interpreted code, we use a language interpreter, that is a piece of software that allows the end-user to write a program in some human-readable language, and have this program executed directly by the interpreter. This is in contrast to language compilers, that translate the human-readable code into machine-readable code, so that the end-user can execute the machine-readable code at a later time. This is far more easier to detect malicious code inside the programs, you just need to see what piece of code produced the undesired action.
QUESTION NO: 32 Which model, based on the premise that the quality of a software product is a direct function of the quality of its associated software development and maintenance processes, introduced five levels with which the maturity of an organization involved in the software process is evaluated? A. The Total Quality Model (TQM) B. The IDEAL Model C. The Software Capability Maturity Model D. The Spiral Model
Answer: C COMMENTS: The Capability Maturity Model for Software describes the principles and practices underlying software process maturity and is intended to help software organizations improve the maturity of their software processes in terms of an evolutionary path from ad hoc, chaotic processes to mature, disciplined software processes. The CMM is organized into five maturity levels: 1) Initial. The software process is characterized as ad hoc, and occasionally even chaotic. Few processes are defined, and success depends on individual effort and heroics. 2) Repeatable. Basic project management processes are established to track cost, schedule, and functionality. The necessary process discipline is in place to repeat earlier successes on projects with similar applications. 3) Defined. The software process for both management and engineering activities is documented, standardized, and integrated into a standard software process for the organization. All projects use an approved, tailored version of the organization's standard software process for developing and maintaining software. 4) Managed. Detailed measures of the software process and product quality are collected. Both the software process and products are quantitatively understood and controlled. 5) Optimizing. Continuous process improvement is enabled by quantitative feedback from the process and from piloting innovative ideas and technologies.
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QUESTION NO: 33 Phreakers are hackers who specialize in telephone fraud. What type of telephone fraud simulates the tones of coins being deposited into a payphone? A. Red Boxes B. Blue Boxes C. White Boxes D. Black Boxes
Answer: A COMMENTS: The Red box basically simulates the sounds of coins being dropped into the coin slot of a payphone. The traditional Red Box consisting of a pair of Wien-bridge oscillators with the timing controlled by 555 timer chips. The Blue Box, The mother of all boxes, The first box in history, which started the whole phreaking scene. Invented by John Draper (aka "Captain Crunch") in the early 60s, who discovered that by sending a tone of 2600Hz over the telephone lines of AT&T, it was possible to make free calls. A Black Box is a device that is hooked up to your phone that fixes your phone so that when you get a call, the caller doesn't get charged for the call. This is good for calls up to 1/2 hour, after 1/2 hour the Phone Co. gets suspicious, and then you can guess what happens. The White Box turns a normal touch tone keypad into a portable unit. This kind of box can be commonly found in a phone shop.
QUESTION NO: 34 What is the proper term to refer to a single unit of Ethernet data? A. Ethernet segment B. Ethernet datagram C. Ethernet frame D. Ethernet packet Answer: C COMMENTS: Ethernet traffic is transported in units of a frame, where each frame has a definite beginning and end. Here is an Ethernet frame:
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In this picture we define: • Preamble Field used for synchronization, 64-bits • Destination Address Ethernet address of the destination host, 48-bits • Source Address Ethernet address of the source host, 48-bits • Type of data encapsulated, e.g. IP, ARP, RARP, etc, 16-bits. • Data Field Data area, 46-1500 bytes, which has Destination Address Internet address of destination host Source Address Internet address of source host • CRC Cyclical Redundancy Check, used for error detection
QUESTION NO: 35 Which of the following represents an ALE calculation? A. Singe loss expectancy x annualized rate of occurrence. B. Gross loss expectancy x loss frequency. C. Actual repla cement cost – proceeds of salvage. D. Asset value x loss expectancy. Answer: A COMMENTS: ALE (Annualized Loss Expectancy) calculations are a component of every risk analysis process. ALE calculations when done properly portray risk accurately. ALE calculations provide meaningful cost/benefit analysis. ALE calculations are used to: • Identify risks • Plan budgets for information risk management • Calculate loss expectancy in annualized terms
SLE x ARO = ALE
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QUESTION NO: 36 IF an operating system permits executable objects to be used simultaneously by multiple users without a refresh of the objects, what security problem is most likely to exist? A. Disclosure of residual data. B. Unauthorized obtaining of a privileged execution state. C. Data leakage through covert channels. D. Denial of service through a deadly embrace. Answer: A COMMENTS: This is a well known issue knew by many programmers, since the operating system is allowing the executables to be used by many users in different sessions at the same time, and there is not refreshing every certain time, there will be a disclosure of residual data. To fix this we need to get sure that objects are refreshed frequently, for added security its better an OS that does not allow the use of an executable object by many users at the same time.
QUESTION NO: 37 Tape arrays use a large device with multiple (sometimes 32 or 64) tapes that are configured as a? A. Single array B. Dual array C. Triple array D. Quadruple array Answer: A COMMENTS: This is the function of a tape robot/changer working on a media library / jukebox. We can get as many as 32 / 64 or even more tapes action as a single logical unit. You can have a robot that changes and retrieves the different tapes when they are needed, so you see the whole bunch of tapes as it’s a single logical storage solution for you. This kind of solutions are very expensive.
QUESTION NO: 38 Why would anomaly detection IDSs often generate a large number of false positives? A. Because they can only identify correctly attacks they already know about. B. Because they are application-based are more subject to attacks. C. Because they cant identify abnormal behavior. D. Because normal patterns of user and system behavior can vary wildly.
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Answer: D COMMENTS: One of the most obvious reasons why false alarms occur is because tools are stateless. To detect an intrusion, simple pattern matching of signatures is often insufficient. However, that's what most tools do. Then, if the signature is not carefully designed, there will be lots of matches. For example, tools detect attacks in sendmail by looking for the words "DEBUG" or "WIZARD" as the first word of a line. If this is in the body of the message, it's in fact innocuous, but if the tool doesn't differentiate between the header and the body of the mail, then a false alarm is generated. Finally, there are many events happening in the course of the normal life of any system or network that can be mistaken for attacks. A lot of sysadmin activity can be catalogued as anomalous. Therefore, a clear correlation between attack data and administrative data should be established to cross-check that everything happening on a system is actually desired. Normal patterns and user activities are usually confused with attacks by IDS devices, its expected that the 2 generations IDS systems will decrease the percent of false positives. nd
QUESTION NO: 39 According to private sector data classification levels, how would salary levels and medical information be classified? A. Public B. Sensitive C. Private D. Confidential
Answer: C COMMENTS: According to the classification levels of the private sector, this information is classified as Private because this information is from a personal nature. There is no need for other employees to see details about your health or you salary range, this can lead to internal problems inside the company, problems like jealous employees.
QUESTION NO: 40 Which of the following is used in database information security to hide information? A. Inheritance B. Polyinstantiation C. Polymorphism D. Delegation Answer: B
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COMMENTS: Polyinstantiation represents an environment characterized by information stored in more than one location in the database. This permits a security model with multiple levels-of-view and authorization. The current problem with polyinstantiation is ensuring the integrity of the information in the database. Without an effective method for the simultaneous updating of all occurrences of the same data element - integrity cannot be guaranteed.
QUESTION NO: 41 Which of the following evaluates the product against the specification? A. Verification B. Validation C. Concurrence D. Accuracy Ans wer: A COMMENTS: This is the proper term, “Verification”, this term is used when we are making a comparison of a product against a specification. For example, you can have a product that is build on open standards, you can have a proof of that by making a “verification” of it against the standards or specifications included in those.
QUESTION NO: 42 Application Level Firewalls are commonly a host computer running proxy server software, which makes a? A. Proxy Client B. Proxy Session C. Proxy System D. Proxy Server
Answer: D COMMENTS: A proxy server is a server that sits between a client and server application, such as a Web browser and a source web server. It intercepts all requests to the real server to see if it can fulfill the requests itself. If not, it forwards the request to the original source web server. Firewalls usually provides this kind of services to have more control over user request and allow / deny the traffic of those through the gateway. At this time the most common Proxy server is for HTTP protocol, we can also have proxies for SMTP and FTP.
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What attack involves the perpetrator sending spoofed packet(s) with the SYN flag set to the victim’s machine on any open port that is listening? A. Bonk attack B. Land attack C. Teardrop attack D. Smurf attack Answer: B COMMENTS: The Land attack involves the perpetrator sending spoofed packet(s) with the SYN flag set to the victim's machine on any open port that is listening. If the packet(s) contain the same destination and source IP address as the host, the victim's machine could hang or reboot. In addition, most systems experience a total freeze up, where as CTRL-ALT-DELETE fails to work, the mouse and keyboard become non operational and the only method of correction is to reboot via a reset button on the system or by turning the machine off. Vulnerable Systems: This will affect almost all Windows 95, Windows NT, Windows for Workgroups systems that are not properly patched and allow Net Bios over TCP/IP. In addition, machines running services such as HTTP, FTP, Identd, etc that do not filter packet(s), that contain the same source / destination IP address, can still be vulnerable to attack through those ports. Prevention: This attack can be prevented for open / listening ports by filtering inbound packets containing the same source / destination IP address at the router or firewall level. For most home users not running a lot of services, and for those who use IRC, disabling the Identd server within their client will stop most attacks since the identd service (113) is becoming the most attacked service/port.
QUESTION NO: 44 The beginning and the end of each transfer during asynchronous communication data transfer are marked by? A. Start and Stop bits. B. Start and End bits. C. Begin and Stop bits. D. Start and Finish bits.
Answer: A COMMENTS: The ASYNCHRONOUS (ASYNC) format for data transmission is a procedure or protocol in which each information CHARACTER or BYTE is individually synchronized or FRAMED by the use of Start and Stop Elements, also referred to as START BITS and STOP BITS. The Asynchronous Transmission Format is also known as START-STOP mode or CHARACTER mode. Each character or byte is framed as a separate and independent unit of DATA that may be transmitted and received at irregular and
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independent time intervals. The characters or bytes may also be transmitted as a contiguous stream or series of characters.
QUESTION NO: 45 Most of unplanned downtime of information systems is attributed to which of the following? A. Hardware failure B. Natural disaster C. Human error D. Software failure
Answer: A COMMENTS: This is what the static’s says. Most of the downtime is cause of unexpected hardware failure. Commonly you just replace the FRU (Field replazable unit) when they fail. Usually a well written software does not fail if the hardware is running correctly. The human errors are controllable and natural disasters are not very often. Hardware failure is very common, it’s a good practice to have spare disks, NIC and any other hardware FRU´s in your company to minimize the downtime with quick replacements.
QUESTION NO: 46 Raid that functions as part of the operating system on the file server A. Software implementation B. Hardware implementation C. Network implementation D. Netware implementation Answer: A COMMENTS: This kind of RAID is totally depended on the operating system, this is because the server does not have any special hardware - RAID controller in the board. This kind of RAID implementation usually degrades performance because it takes many CPU cycles. A very common example of software RAID is the support for it on Windows 2000 Server, where you can create RAID 0,1 and 5 through heterogeneous disks, you can even make a RAID between one SCSI and one EIDE disk. The software implementation is hardware independent always that the disks are recognized by the Operating System.
QUESTION NO: 47 During which phase of an IT system life cycle are security requirements developed? A. Operation
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B. Initiation C. Development D. Implementation
Answer: C COMMENTS: The System Development Life Cycle is the process of developing information systems through investigation, analysis, design, implementation, and maintenance. The System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) is also known as Information Systems Development or Application Development. If you take a look at the standard IT system life cycle chart, you will see that everything that deals with security requirements is done at the “development” stage. In this stage you can create the access controls, the form of authentication to use and all the other security requirements.
QUESTION NO: 48 Ensuring that printed reports reach proper users and that receipts are signed before releasing sensitive documents are examples of? A. Deterrent controls B. Output controls C. Information flow controls D. Asset controls
Answer: B COMMENTS: Since we want to deal with printer reports, we are talking about output controls, Why, because printer produce output, and we can control it. As a best practice you can have people dedicated in the company to receive the different print jobs in the printing center, and people that takes care of the confidential information requiring a signature from the sender stating that the document was delivered to the owner in a timely and secure fashion.
QUESTION NO: 49 Non-Discretionary Access Control. A central authority determines what subjects can have access to certain objects based on the organizational security policy. The access controls may be based on? A. The societies role in the organization. B. The individual’s role in the organization. C. The group-dynamics as they relate to the individual’s role in the organization. D. The group-dynamics as they relate to the master-slave role in the organization.
Answer: B
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COMMENTS: An access control model defines a computer and/or network system's rules for user access to information resources. Access control models provide confidentiality, integrity and also provide accountability through audit trails. An audit trail documents the access of an object by a subject with a record of what operations were performed. Operations include: read, write, execute and own. Non-Discretionary Access Control is usually role -based, centrally administered with authorization decisions based on the roles individuals have within an organization (e.g. bank teller, loan officer, etc. in a banking model). A system's security administrator grants and/or revokes system privileges based on a user's role. This model works well for corporations with a large turnover of personnel.
QUESTION NO: 50 An effective information security policy should not have which of the following characteristics? A. Include separation of duties. B. Be designed with a short-to mid-term focus. C. Be understandable and supported by all stakeholders. D. Specify areas of responsibility and authority. Answer: B COMMENTS: This is not a very good practice, specially for the CISSP examination, when you plan and develop the security policy for your enterprise you should always plan it with a long term focus. The policy should be created to be there for a long time, and you should only make revisions of it every certain time to comply with changes or things that could have changed. In a security policy the duties should be well specified, be understandable by the people involved in it, and specify areas of responsibility.
QUESTION NO: 51 Which of the following statements pertaining to secure information processing facilities is incorrect? A. Walls should have an acceptable fire rating. B. Windows should be protected by bars. C. Doors must resist forcible entry. D. Location and type of fire suppression systems should be known. Answer: B COMMENTS: The correct answer can be determined through elimination. We need to have an acceptable fire rating for the walls, this is well known for any CISSP aspirant, its like that because we need to contain the fire as much as we can. We also need resistant doors so unauthorized people do not enter easily using the force. The people also need to know about fire suppression systems to be able to deal with a fire situation inside the facilities. As you can see, We should not protect windows with bars, this is a bad practice because, in the case of a fire, the people cannot get out of the building through the windows.
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QUESTION NO: 52 Making sure that the data is accessible when and where it is needed is which of the following? A. Confidentiality B. Integrity C. Acceptability D. Availability Answer: D COMMENTS: This is one of the pillars of network security. We can say that the data is available if we can access to it when we need it. This what is referred in the question, Availability refers to get access to data when and where you need it. Confidentiality deals with encryption and data protection against third party interception. Integrity deals with digital signatures and assures that the data has not changed. Acceptability is not a related term.
QUESTION NO: 53 Business continuity plan development depends most on? A. Directives of Senior Management B. Business Impact Analysis (BIA) C. Scope and Plan Initiation D. Skills of BCP committee Answer: B COMMENTS: Business continuity is of course a vital activity. However, prior to the creation of a business continuity plan, it is essential to consider the potential impacts of disaster and to understand the underlying risks. It is now widely accepted that both business impact analysis and risk analysis are vital components of the business continuity process. However, many organizations are unsure of how to approach these important disciplines. BIA is important because it provides management level analysis by which an organization assesses the quantitative (financial) and qualitative (non-financial) impacts, effects and loss that might result if the organization were to suffer a Business Continuity E/I/C. The findings from a BIA are used to make decisions concerning Business Continuity Management strategy and solutions.
QUESTION NO: 54 Which layer defines the X.25, V.35, X,21 and HSSI standard interfaces?
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A. Transport layer B. Network layer C. Data link layer D. Physical layer
Answer: D COMMENTS: The Physical Layer is the layer that is concerned with the signaling of the message and the interface between the sender or receiver and the medium. The physical layer is generally defined by one of the standards bodies and carries a designation that indicates the characteristics of the connection. Among frequently used physical layers standards are EIA-232-D, ITU V.35, and some of the X series (X.21/X.21bis, for example).
QUESTION NO: 55 Related to information security, availability is the opposite of which of the following? A. Delegation B. Distribution C. Documentation D. Destruction Answer: D COMMENTS: This is the correct term, remember that Availability refers to get access to data when and where you need it. When we talk about destruction, we are saying the opposite, if your information is destroyed, you cant access to it neither when or where you want it. Delegation deals with permissions, distribution deals with deployment and documentation deals with information and how to´s. The term we are looking here is definitively “destruction”.
QUESTION NO: 56 Which of the following is a disadvantage of a behavior-based ID system? A. The activity and behavior of the users while in the networked system may not be static enough to effectively implement a behavior-based ID system. B. The activity and behavior of the users while in the networked system may be dynamic enough to effectively implement a behavior-based ID system. C. The activity and behavior of the users while in the networked system may not be dynamic enough to effectively implement a behavior-based ID system. D. The system is characterized by high false negative rates where intrusions are missed.
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Answer: A COMMENTS: Behavior-based intrusion detection techniques assume that an intrusion can be detected by observing a deviation from normal or expected behavior of the system or the users. The model of normal or valid behavior is extracted from reference information collected by various means. The intrusion detection system later compares this model with the current activity. When a deviation is observed, an alarm is generated. In other words, anything that does not correspond to a previously learned behavior is considered intrusive. The high false alarm rate is generally cited as the main drawback of behavior-based techniques because the entire scope of the behavior of an information system may not be covered during the learning phase. Als o, behavior can change over time, introducing the need for periodic online retraining of the behavior profile, resulting either in unavailability of the intrusion detection system or in additional false alarms. To get the most out of this kind of IDS you need to have very static behavior on your network and the user actions, this is because any new thing is considered dangerous, providing many false-positives but increased security. If you are in a very “dynamic” environment these kind of IDS system is not recommended.
QUESTION NO: 57 Which of the following statements pertaining to VPN protocol standards is false? A. L2TP is a combination of PPTP and L2F. B. L2TP and PPTP were designed for single point-to-point client to server communication. C. L2TP operates at the network layer. D. PPTP uses native PPP authentication and encryption services. Answer: C COMMENTS: The Layer 2 Tunnel Protocol (L2TP) is an emerging Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standard that combines the best features of two existing tunneling protocols: Cisco's Layer 2 Forwarding (L2F) and Microsoft's Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP). L2TP is an extension to the Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP), which is an important component for VPNs. VPNs allow users and telecommuters to connect to their corporate intranets or extranets. VPNs are cost-effective because users can connect to the Internet locally and tunnel back to connect to corporate resources. This not only reduces overhead costs associated with traditional remote access methods, but also improves flexibility and scalability. PPTP and L2TP are Layer 2 tunneling protocols; both encapsulate the payload in a Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) frame to be sent across an intermediate network.
QUESTION NO: 58 What is the most critical characteristic of a biometric identifying system? A. Perceived intrusiveness B. Storage requirements C. Accuracy
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D. Reliability
Answer: C COMMENTS: The principle of biometrics is to use some unique characteristic to identify whether the person is who they say they are. Biometrics works by matching or verifying a person’s unique traits with stored data in two categories: physiological characteristics and those that are behavioral. Physical indicators include iris, fingerprint, facial, or hand geometry. Behavior types are usually voiceprints, keystroke dynamics and handwritten signatures. Most biometric technologies require special hardware to convert analog measurements of signatures, voices, or patterns of fingerprints and palm prints, to digital measurement, which computers can read. The biggest characteristic and problem of biometric implementations today is the accuracy, we must see the level of accuracy before buying a solution, because the technology is not perfect at this time and it can be erroneous sometimes.
QUESTION NO: 59 RAID Software can run faster in the operating system because neither use the hardware -level parity drives by? A. Simple striping or mirroring. B. Hard striping or mirroring. C. Simple hamming code parity or mirroring. D. Simple striping or hamming code parity.
Answer: A COMMENTS: This is true, if we do not use parity in our RAID implementation, like RAID 1 (Mirroring) or RAID 0 (Stripping) we can improve performance because the CPU does not need waste cycles to make the parity calculations. For example this can be achieved in Windows 2000 server through the use of RAID 0 (No fault tolerance, just stripping in 64kb chunks) or RAID 1 (Mirroring through a file system driver). This is not the case of RAID 5 that actually use parity to provide fault tolerance.
QUESTION NO: 60 The guarantee that the message sent is the message received, and that the message was not intentionally or unintentionally altered is? A. Integrity B. Confidentiality C. Availability D. Identity
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Answer: A COMMENTS: Here are 2 definitions for Data Integrity: 1. The condition existing when data is unchanged from its source and has not been accidentally or maliciously modified, altered, or destroyed. 2. The condition in which data are identically maintained during any operation, such as transfer, storage, and retrieval. Availability refers to get access to data when and where you need it. Confidentiality deals with encryption and data protection against third party interception. Identity deals with authentication.
QUESTION NO: 61 Which of the following is a preventive control? A. Motion detectors B. Guard dogs C. Audit logs D. Intrusion detection systems Answer: B COMMENTS: This is very obvious. Since we want to prevent something from happening, we can go out and buy some Guard dogs to make the job. You are buying them because you want to prevent something from happening. The intruder will see the dogs and will maybe go back, this prevents an attack, this dogs are a form of preventive control. Motion Detectors and IDS are real-time, Audit Logs are passive.
QUESTION NO: 62 What uses a key of the same length as the message? A. Running key cipher B. One-time pad C. Steganography D. Cipher block chaining Answer: B COMMENTS: The one time pad is the most secure, and one of the simplest of all cryptographic methods. It was invented and patented just after World War I by Gilbert Vernam (of AT&T) and Joseph Mauborgne (USA, later chief of the Signal Corps). The fundamental features are that the sender and receiver each have a copy of an encryption key, which is as long as the message to be encrypted, and each key is used for only one message and then discarded. That key must be random, that is without pattern, and must remain
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unknown to any attacker. In addition, the key must never be reused, otherwise the cipher becomes trivially breakable. One of its features it’s the key length, it’s the same as the message.
QUESTION NO: 63 Which of the following protocols operates at the session layer (layer 5)? A. RPC B. IGMP C. LDP D. SPX Answer: A COMMENTS: The socket method of network use is a message-based system, in which one process writes a message to another. This is a long way from the procedural model. The remote procedure call is intended to act like a procedure call, but to act across the network transparently. The process makes a remote procedure call by pushing its parameters and a return address onto the stack, and jumping to the start of the procedure. The procedure itself is responsible for accessing and using the network. After the remote execution is over, the procedure jumps back to the return address. The calling process then continues. RPC works at the Session layer of the OSI model.
QUESTION NO: 64 Which of the following are NOT a countermeasure to traffic analysis? A. Padding messages B. Eavesdropping C. Sending noise D. Covert channel analysis Answer: B COMMENTS: Lets do this with a elimination process. With padding messages you can countermeasure traffic analysis because you add garbage information to the message to let in end in a fixed length, this can confuse the analyzer. Sending noise on the communication line could also countermeasure analysis because the analyzer don’t now how to differentiate between real information and noise. You can also covert channel analysis. Eavesdropping does not apply in this situation, its not considered a counter measure to traffic analysis.
QUESTION NO: 65 Which of the following layers of the ISO/OSI model do packet filtering firewalls operate at?
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A. Application layer B. Session layer C. Network layer D. Presentation layer
Answer: C COMMENTS: Packet filtering firewalls work at the network level of the OSI model, or the IP layer of TCP/IP. These firewalls are normally part of a router, which is a device that receives and forwards packets to networks. “In a packet filtering firewall each packet is compared to a set of criteria before it is forwarded. Depending on the packet and the criteria, the firewall can drop the packet, forward it, or send a message to the originator.” The criteria used to evaluate a packet include source, destination IP address, destination port, and protocol used. These types of firewalls are low in cost and don’t have much of an impact on the network’s performance.
QUESTION NO: 66 A prolonged high voltage is? A. Spike B. Blackout C. Surge D. Fault Answer: C COMMENTS: A surge is a prolonged spike, it occur when the power level rises above normal levels and then drop back to normal in less than one second. A Spike occurs when the power level rises above normal levels and stays there for more than 1 or 2 seconds.. A blackout is the total loss of power and a fault is the opposite of a Spike, it’s a lowering in the voltage, its usually around one second. The surge is the most dangerous from the listed above.
QUESTION NO: 67 How do the Information Labels of Compartmented Mode Workstation differ from the Sensitivity Levels of B3 evaluated systems? A. Information Labels in CMW are homologous to Sensitivity Labels, but a different term was chosen to emphasize that CMW’s are not described in the Orange Book. B. Information La bels contain more information than Sensitivity Labels, thus allowing more granular access decisions to be made. C. Sensitivity Labels contain more information than Information Labels because B3+ systems should store more sensitive data than workstations.
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D. Information Labels contain more information than Sensitivity Labels, but are not used by the Reference Monitor to determine access permissions. Answer: D COMMENTS: The primary goal of the compartmented mode workstation (CMW) project was to articulate the security requirements that workstations must meet to process highly classified intelligence data. As a basis for the validity of the requirements developed, a prototype was implemented which demonstrated that workstations could meet the requirements in an operationally useful manner while still remaining binary compatible with off-the-shelf software. The security requirements not only addressed traditional security concerns but also introduced concepts in areas such as labeling and the use of a trusted window management system. The CMW labeling paradigm is based on associating two types of security labels with objects: sensitivity levels and information labels. Sensitivity levels describe the levels at which objects must be protected. Information labels are used to prevent data over classification and also provide a mechanism for associating with data those markings that are required for accurate data labeling, but which play no role in access control decisions. The use of a trusted window manager allows users to easily operate at multiple sensitivity levels and provides a convenient mechanism for communicating security information to users in a relatively unobtrusive manner. Information labels are not used by reference monitor , permissions are referenced in Sensibility labels.
QUESTION NO: 68 In what security mode can a system be operating if all users have the clearance or authorization and need-to-know to all data processed within the system? A. Dedicated security mode. B. System-high security mode. C. Compartmented security mode. D. Multilevel security mode.
Answer: A COMMENTS: An information-system (IS) security mode of operation wherein each user with direct or indirect access to the system, its peripherals, remote terminals, or remote hosts, has all of the following: (a) a valid security clearance for all information within the system; (b) formal access approval and signed nondisclosure agreements for all the information stored and/or processed (including all compartments, sub compartments, and/or special access programs); and (c) a valid need-to-know for all information contained within the IS. When in the dedicated security mode, a system is specifically and exclusively dedicated to and controlled for the processing of one particular type or classification of information, either for full-time operation or for a specified period of time.
QUESTION NO: 69 What are the three conditions that must be met by the reference monitor?
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A. Confidentiality, availability and integrity. B. Policy, mechanism and assurance. C. Isolation, layering and abstraction. D. Isolation, completeness and verifiability.
Answer: D COMMENTS: These are three of the main characteristics of a Reference Monitor. You need Isolation, because it cant be of public access, the less access the better. It must have a sense of completeness to provide the whole information and process cycles. It must be verifiable, to provide security, audit and accounting functions.
QUESTION NO: 70 While referring to Physical Security, what does Positive pressurization means? A. The pressure inside your sprinkler system is greater than zero. B. The air goes out of a room when a door is opened and outside air does not go into the room. C. Causes the sprinkler system to go off. D. A series of measures that increase pressure on employees in order to make them more productive. Answer: B COMMENTS: Positive Pressurization is a condition that exists when more air is supplied to a space than is exhausted, so the air pressure within that space is greater than that in surrounding areas. This condition can cause the situation mentioned above in the answer B, you can make air go out of a room but not enter to it from the outside.
QUESTION NO: 71 The baseline sets certain thresholds for specific errors or mistakes allowed and the amount of these occurrences that can take place before it is considered suspicious? A. Checkpoint level B. Ceiling level C. Clipping level D. Threshold level
Answer: C COMMENTS: According to CISSP documentation, this is the proper term, The Clipping level is used to determine suspicious occurrences that are a production of errors or mistakes. Checkpoint level is not a related term. Ceiling level is not related to baselines. Threshold level is attractive, but is not the correct term. Take a look at your CISSP documentation.
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QUESTION NO: 72 The most prevalent cause of computer center fires is which of the following? A. AC equipment B. Electric al distribution systems. C. Heating systems D. Natural causes Answer: B COMMENTS: According to static’s, this is the greatest cause, Electrical distribution systems, specially those not installed through standards are very prone to fail and make fire inside places. AC equipment its not very prone to make fire. Natural causes it’s a possibility but is definitively not the most prevalent cause. Heating systems are a very rare case of Fire beginners.
QUESTION NO: 73 An offsite backup facility intended to operate an information processing facility, having no computer or communications equipment, but having flooring, electrical writing, air conditioning, etc. Is better known as a? A. Hot site B. Duplicate processing facility C. Cold site D. Warm site
Answer: C COMMENTS: A cold site has all the appropriate power requirements, and floor space to install the hardware and to enable you to recreate your computer environment, but does not provide the actual equipment. Many of the companies that pr ovide hot sites also provide cold sites. It may be reasonable for your company to consider creating its won cold site if your company has floor space available in another location than the home site. They require much more outage than Hot sites before operations can be restored.
QUESTION NO: 74 Which of the following are necessary components of a Multi-Level Security Policy? A. Sensitivity Labels and a “system high” evaluation. B. Sensitivity Labels and Discretionary Access Control. C. Sensitivity Labels and Mandatory Access Control.
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D. Object Labels and a “system high” evaluation.
Answer: C COMMENTS: First implemented in Military organizations (and I think even today it's implemented there only), this model was a significant improvement in terms of security policy implementation. This model made implementation of complex security policies very simple. It's specifications are present in the orange book from DoD. In this model, every object is assigned a sensitivity label. Also, every user is assigned a sensitivity label. If a user's sensitivity label is greater than or equal to the sensitivity label, he is allowed access to the object, otherwise, he is denied access. This methodology is used for creating a hierarchy of access. We can say that this method is used for partitioning the organization hierarchy horizontally. Multi-Level Security is considered a Mandatory Access Control method.
QUESTION NO: 75 Which of the following, used to extend a network, has a storage capacity to store frames and act as a store -and-forward device? A. Bridge B. Router C. Repeater D. Gateway
Answer: A COMMENTS: A bridge is a network device that connects two similar network segments together. The primary function of a bridge is to keep traffic separated on both sites of the bridge. Traffic is allowed to pass through the bridge only if the transmission is intended for a station in the opposite side. Bridges operate at the data link layer of the OSI model an provides two different collision domains in Ethernet, but they only provide one broadcast domain for layer 3 an up of the OSI model. The bridge can store frames and forward them in many forms like Cut-through and Store and Forward.
QUESTION NO: 76 Which of the following is addressed by Kerberos? A. Confidentiality and integrity. B. Authorization and authentication. C. Validation and integrity. D. Confidentiality and integrity. Answer: D
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COMMENTS: Kerberos is a network authentication protocol. It is designed to provide strong authentication for client/server applications by using secret-key cryptography. A free implementation of this protocol is available from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Kerberos is available in many commercial products as well. Kerberos was created by MIT as a solution to these network security problems. The Kerberos protocol uses strong cryptography so that a client can prove its identity to a server (and vice versa) across an insecure network connection. After a client and server has used Kerberos to prove their identity, they can also encrypt (confidentiality) all of their communications to assure privacy and data integrity as they go about their business.
QUESTION NO: 77 Access Control techniques do not include which of the following choices? A. Relevant Access Controls B. Discretionary Access Control C. Mandatory Access Control D. Lattice Based Access Control Answer: A COMMENTS: Relevant Access Controls are not included as a Access Control Technique. Lattice-based access control models were developed in the early 1970s to deal with the confidentiality of military information. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, researchers applied these models to certain integrity concerns. Later, application of the models to the Chinese Wall policy, a confidentiality policy unique to the commercial sector, was demonstrated. Discretionary control is the most common type of access control mechanism implemented in computer systems today. The basis of this kind of security is that an individual user, or program operating on the user's behalf, is allowed to specify explicitly the types of access other users (or programs executing on their behalf) may have to information under the user's control. Discretionary Access control security differs from mandatory access control security in that it implements the access control decisions of the user. Mandatory controls are driven by the results of a comparison between the user's trust level or clearance and the sensitivity designation of the information.
QUESTION NO: 78 Why is public key cryptography recommended for use in the process of securing facsimiles during transmission? A. Keys are never transmitted over the network. B. Data compression decreases key change frequency. C. Key data is not recognizable from facsimile data. D. The key is securely passed to the receiving machine.
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Answer: D COMMENTS: In this method of cryptography we use 2 keys, one to encrypt the data, and another to decrypt it. In Public Key Cryptography, the users have a public and a private key, the public key is of free distribution and is usually published in a directory, while the private keys must be keep secure. This allows the keys to pass in a secure fashion to the receiving machine, its because the public key is not confidential and can be send through a secure channel. You need to use a certification authority to make this kind of cryptography work.
QUESTION NO: 79 Database views are not used to: A. Implement referential integrity. B. Implement least privilege. C. To implement content-dependent access restrictions. D. Implement need-to-know. Answer: A COMMENTS: A View is a display of one or more table shows that shows the table data. You can even retrieve part of the table and display the same to the user. Before a user is able to use a view, they must have both, permission on the view and all dependent objects. Views can also be used to implement security, for example you can create a view that only shows 3 of 5 columns contained in a table. Views are not used to provide integrity you can use constraints, rule or other components of database systems.
QUESTION NO: 80 Which of the following is most concerned with personnel security? A. Management controls B. Operational controls C. Technical controls D. Human resources controls. Answer: B COMMENTS: Personnel security always have to deal more with Operational controls, Operational controls provide the guidelines and the correct procedures to implement the different operations. Management controls are usually used only by managers. Human resources and Technical Controls are not related to personal security as the question states. See the different control definitions in your CISSP documentation.
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QUESTION NO: 81 Which of the following statements pertaining to the Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria (TCSEC) is incorrect? A. With TCSEC, functionality and assurance are evaluated separately. B. TCSEC provides a means to evaluate the trustworthiness of an information system. C. The Orange book does not cover networks and communications. D. Data base management systems are not covered by the TCSEC.
Answer: A COMMENTS: TCSEC does not separate functionality and assurance from evaluation. It makes them a combined criteria. Just to remember, The Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria (TCSEC) is a collection of criteria used to grade or rate the security offered by a computer system product. The TCSEC is sometimes referred to as "the Orange Book" because of its orange cover (Orange Book deals with networks and communications). The current version is dated 1985 (DOD 5200.28-STD, Library No.S225,711) The TCSEC, its interpretations and guidelines all have different color covers, and are sometimes known as the "Rainbow Series". Database management is also covered in TCSEC.
QUESTION NO: 82 Which of the following could illegally capture network user passwords? A. Data diddling B. Sniffing C. Spoofing D. Smurfing Answer: B COMMENTS: Sniffing is the action of capture the information going over the network. Most popular way of connecting computers is through Ethernet. Ethernet protocol works by sending packet information to all the hosts on the same circuit. The packet header contains the proper address of the destination machine. Only the machine with the matching address is suppose to accept the packet. A machine that is accepting all packets, no matter what the packet header says, is said to be in promiscuous mode. Because, in a nor mal networking environment, account and password information is passed along Ethernet in clear-text, it is not hard for an intruder to put a machine into promiscuous mode and by sniffing, compromise all the machines on the net by capturing password in an illegal fashion.
QUESTION NO: 83 Which trusted facility management concept implies that two operators must review and approve the work of each other? A. Two-man control
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B. Dual control C. Double control D. Segregation control
Answer: A COMMENTS: The proper term for this trusted facility management concept is “Two-man Control”, it means that two people must work and approve each others work to provide increased security and eliminate the possibility of one of them to hurt the company. For example they can only make changes to the system if both of them authenticate with their retina at the same time at the data center and enter their secret password This kind of work fashion is only used in highly secure environments, its not very common.
QUESTION NO: 84 There are more than 20 books in the Rainbow Series. Which of the following covers password management guidelines? A. Orange Book B. Green Book C. Red Book D. Lavender Book Answer: B COMMENTS: The DoD Password Management Guideline was published at 12 April 1985, it is also called the “Green Book” because of the color of its cover. Here is the password definition according to it: “A character string used to authenticate an identity. Knowledge of the password that is associated with a user ID is considered proof of authorization to use the capabilities associated with that user ID.”
QUESTION NO: 85 Which of the following is an ip address that is private? (i.e. reserved for internal networks, and not a valid address to use on the Internet)? A. 172.5.42.5 B. 172.76.42.5 C. 172.90.42.5 D. 172.16.42.5
Answer: D COMMENTS: The IP address 172.16.42.5 is contained in a class B reserved network, IANA reserved the 172.16.0.0 through 172.31.255.255 networks for internal use, this network its not routable in Internet and its commonly used in intranets. Class B networks are used in medium-sized networks. In class B networks, the
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two high order bits are always 10, and then remaining bits are used to define 16.384 networks, each with as many as 65.534 hosts attached. Examples of valid Class B networks include Microsoft and Exxon.
QUESTION NO: 86 How fast is private key cryptography compared to public key cryptography? A. 10 to 100 times faster. B. 100 to 1000 times faster. C. 1000 to 10000 times faster. D. 10000 to 20000 times faster.
Answer: C COMMENTS: Since Private Key encryption (Symmetric) only has one key for encrypt-decrypt, you need to use an alternative way to pass the shared secret in a secure manner, in our days, it’s usually done by telephone or some secure methods that not involve the channel you are trying to secure. Also, since you need one different key to encrypt-decrypt every connection, the number of keys gets huge in a little time, for example, if we have 10 users trying to communicate between themselves, we have 100 different encryption keys to manage. There is an advantage for Private key encryption, the encryption is very fast, about 1000 / 10000 times faster than asymmetric encryption.
QUESTION NO: 87 The continual effort of making sure that the correct policies, procedures and standards are in place and being followed is described as what? A. Due care B. Due concern C. Due diligence D. Due practice
Answer: C COMMENTS: According to the CISSP documentation, this is the correct term, A “due diligence” is the action to make sure that your security policy is being enforced through the use of procedures and standards. This is something that every good Security professiona l should do. Due care, due concern and due practice are not correct term to refer what the question is trying to define , the correct term is “due diligence”. Don’t forget that for the exam.
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Which tape format type is mostly used for home/small office backups? A. Quarter Inch Cartridge drives (QIC) B. Digital Linear Tapes (DLT) C. 8mm tape D. Digital Audio Tape (DAT) Answer: A COMMENTS: QIC technology utilizates belt -driven dual-hub cartridges containing integral tape motion and guidance mechanisms, providing a rich spectrum of compatible solutions across a wide range of PC system platforms. QIC reliability is unsurpassed by any other removable storage technology. Reliability can be measured both in mean-time -between failure (MTBF) and, more practically, as a function of drive duty cycles. QIC has a worldwide installed base in excess of 15 million drives -- more than twice that of any alternate removable storage technology -- a level of acceptance that would have been unachievable without rock-solid reliability. QIC is the most common tape solution for SOHO.
QUESTION NO: 89 In an organization, an Information Technology security function should: A. Be a function within the information systems function of an organization. B. Report directly to a specialized business unit such as legal, corporate security or insurance. C. Be lead by a Chief Security Officer and report directly to the CEO. D. Be independent but report to the Information Systems function. Answer: C COMMENTS: This is one of the best practices because its not good to be lead and report to the same person, in that case, that person could take possession of everything that is happening and hurt the enterprise, we can’t let that to happen with security concerns. The best practice is to always be lead by a different person that the one you report to, this can be checked in real life. An advice, always try to report to the highest person you can inside the company.
QUESTION NO: 90 Who of the following is responsible for ensuring that proper controls are in place to address integrity, confidentiality, and availability of IT systems and data? A. Business and functional managers. B. IT Security practitioners. C. System and information owners. D. Chief information officer.
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Answer: C COMMENTS: This is true, the people who own the information and the equipment are the ones who need to ensure they are making everything to get integrity, confidentiality and availability. The security professionals can develop policies and show how to keep the environment secure, but it depends on the owners of the actual data to achieve the security.
QUESTION NO: 91 The act of requiring two of the three factors to be used in the authentication process refers to? A. Two-Factor Authentication B. One-Factor Authentication C. Bi-Factor Authentication D. Double Authentication Answer: A COMMENTS: Two-Factor Authentication is a security process that confirms user identities using two distinctive factors—something you know, such as a Personal Identification Number (PIN), and something you have, such as a smart card or token. The overall strength of Two-Factor Authentication lies in the combination of both factors, something you know and something you have.
QUESTION NO: 92 This type of backup management provides a continuous on-line backup by using optical or tape “jukeboxes”, similar to WORMs, (Write Once, Read Many) A. Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM). B. Hierarchical Resource Management (HRM). C. Hierarchical Access Management (HAM). D. Hierarchical Instance Management (HIM).
Answer: A COMMENTS: Hierarchical Storage Management originated in the mainframe world where it was used to minimize storage costs. The HSM name signifies that the software has the intelligence to move files along a hierarchy of storage devices that are ranked in terms of cost per megabyte of storage, speed of storage and retrieval, and overall capacity limits. Files are migrated along the hierarchy to less expensive forms of storage based on rules tied to the frequency of data access. File migration and retrieval is transparent to users. Two major factors, data access response time and storage costs determine the appropriate combination of storage devices used in HSM. A typical three tier strategy may be composed of hard drives as primary storage on the file servers, rewritable optical as the secondary storage type, and tape as the final tertiary
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storage location. If faster access is required, a hard drive can be considered as an alternative to optical for secondary storage, and WORM (Write Once, Read Many) optical can also be implemented, in place of tape, as the final storage destination.
QUESTION NO: 93 Which of the following elements is not included in a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)? A. Timestamping B. Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) C. Certificate revocation D. Internet Key Exchange (IKE)
Answer: D COMMENTS: Public key cryptography is one mechanism that is often used to fulfill the security requirements necessary to conduct electronic transactions over public networks. PKI (public key infrastructure) and cryptography based solutions are taking the lead in secure e-commerce. PKI addresses nonrepudiation of identity using a dual- key encryption system that allows users to uniquely sign documents with a digital signature. Public key cryptography uses pairs of keys, each pair consisting of one public key and one private key. Information encrypted with one key in the pair can only be decrypted with the other key. LDAP is issued to bring user information and Timestamping to track changes over time. PKI also relies on certificated and CRL (Certificate Revocation list) to discard compromised, expired digital certificates.
QUESTION NO: 94 Which of the following best corresponds to the type of memory addressing where the address location that is specified in the program instruction contains the address of the final desired location? A. Direct addressing B. Indirect addressing C. Indexed addressing D. Program addressing
Answer: B COMMENTS: An addressing mode found in many processors' instruction sets where the instruction contains the address of a memory location which contains the address of the operand (the "effective address") or specifies a register which contains the effective address. Indirect addressing is often combined with pre- or post- increment or decrement addressing, allowing the address of the operand to be increased or decreased by one (or some specified number) either before or after using it.
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QUESTION NO: 95 Creation and maintenance of intrusion detection systems and processes for the following is one of them identify it: A. Event nonrepudiation B. Event notification C. Netware monitoring D. Guest access
Answer: B COMMENTS: There is not much to explain or comment in here, when you administer an IDS system you have to deal with the maintenance and creation of event notification processes, this have to be reviewed every certain time. This is a well known topic for any Intrusion detection system administrator. This notifications will save your life when your network is being attacked and you get real time notifications that will allow you to shut down your external interface before the attacker gets what he was looking for.
QUESTION NO: 96 Which of the following is true related to network sniffing? A. Sniffers allow an attacker to monitor data passing across a network. B. Sniffers alter the source address of a computer to disguise and exploit weak authentication methods, C. Sniffers take over network connections. D. Sniffers send IP fragments to a system that overlap with each other. Answer: A COMMENTS: Sniffing is the action of capture / monitor the traffic going over the network. Because, in a normal networking environment, account and password information is passed along Ethernet in clear-text, it is not hard for an intruder to put a machine into promiscuous mode and by sniffing, compromise all the machines on the net by capturing password in an illegal fashion.
QUESTION NO: 97 Which of the following protocols is not implemented at the Internet layer of the TCP/IP protocol model? A. User datagram protocol (UDP) B. Internet protocol (IP) C. Address resolution protocol (ARP) D. Internet control message protocol (ICMP)
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Answer: A COMMENTS: UDP (User Datagram Protocol) is a communications method (protocol) that offers a limited amount of service when messages are exchanged between computers in a network that uses the Internet Protocol (IP). UDP is an alternative to the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and, together with IP, is sometimes referred to as UDP/IP. Like the Transmission Control Protocol, UDP uses the Internet Protocol to actua lly get a data unit (called a datagram) from one computer to another. Unlike TCP, however, UDP does not provide the service of dividing a message into packets (datagrams) and reassembling it at the other end. Specifically, UDP doesn't provide sequencing of the packets that the data arrives in. UDP is implemented at the Transport layer of the TCP/IP protocol model.
QUESTION NO: 98 Which of the following is used to help business units understand the impact of a disruptive event? A. A risk analysis. B. A business impact assessment. C. A vulnerability assessment. D. A disaster recovery plan. Answer: B COMMENTS: A Business impact assessment can provide information in combination with the BIA to the different business units about how can an attack impact or disrupt the business. Every disaster recovery plan should include an study containing a BIA and a Business impact assessment to better understand how is going to be in the case that a business continuity disruptive event takes place.
QUESTION NO: 99 A contingency plan should address? A. Potential risks B. Residual risks C. Identified risks D. All of the above Answer: B COMMENTS: This is true, as stated in CISSP documentation, you should address any possible “Residual Risk” at your contingency plan to minimize business impact when you are in a downtime situation. The identified Risks and the Potential Risks are not identified there, they are identified earlier.
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QUESTION NO: 100 In the OSI/ISO model, at what level is SET (SECURE ELECTRONIC TRANSACTION PROTOCOL) provided? A. Application B. Network C. Presentation D. Session
Answer: A COMMENTS: This protocol was created by VISA and MasterCard as a common effort to make the buying process over the Internet secure through the distribution line of those companies. It is located in layer 7 of the OSI model, the application layer. SET uses a system of locks and keys along with certified account IDs for both consumers and merchants. Then, through a unique process of "encrypting" or scrambling the information exchanged between the shopper and the online store, SET ensures a payment process that is convenient, private and most of all secure.
QUESTION NO: 101 A packet filtering firewall looks at the data packet to get information about the source and destination addresses of an incoming packet, the session’s communications protocol (TCP, UDP or ICMP), and the source destination application port for the? A. Desired service B. Dedicated service C. Delayed service D. Distributed service.
Answer: A COMMENTS: This is true, the packets filters show the desired service port (Remember that they are layer 3 devices), this is because you can have many different referenced port number in the destination port field of the different packets. You have to look for the well-known port numbers of the service desired. For example, look in port 80 for HTTP and port 21 for FTP. This is the correct terminology, see the features of Packet Filters in your CISSP documentation.
QUESTION NO: 102 Packet Filtering Firewalls system is considered a? A. First generation firewall. B. Second generation firewall. C. Third generation firewall. D. Fourth generation firewall.
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Answer: A COMMENTS: Firewall technology is a young but quickly maturing industry. The first generation of firewall architectures has been around almost as long as routers, first appearing around 1985 and coming out of Cisco's IOS software division. These firewalls are called packet filter firewalls. However, the first paper describing the screening process used by packet filter firewalls did not appear until 1988, when Jeff Mogul from Digital Equipment Corporation published his studies. At this time we are in the Fourth generation of firewall devices and software.
QUESTION NO: 103 When should a post-mortem review meeting be held after an intrusion has been properly taken care of? A. Within the first three months after the investigation of the intrusion is completed. B. Within the first week after prosecution of intruders have taken place, whether successful or not. C. Within the first month after the investigation of the intrusion is completed. D. Within the first week of completing the investigation of the intrusion. Answer: D COMMENTS: As stated in CISSP documentation, you should make post mortem review meetings after taking care of the intrusion, and no more than one week after the facts. Its not a good practice to wait more than this time, it’s a matter of common sense too, three months, one month, 2 weeks, its too much time.
QUESTION NO: 104 Which of the following can be used as a covert channel? A. Storage and timing. B. Storage and low bits. C. Storage and permissions. D. Storage and classification. Answer: A COMMENTS: Those are the proper elements, you can use these two to achieve a covert channel. Low bits is not a term related to covert channels. Permissions are related to authentication, they do not achieve what the question wants. Also, classification is could not sele cted as a correct choice. Check your official CISSP documentation to see what can be used as a covert channel.
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QUESTION NO: 105 Which software development model is actually a meta-model that incorporates a number of the software development models? A. The Waterfall model. B. The modified Waterfall model. C. The Spiral model. D. The Critical Patch Model (CPM). Answer: C COMMENTS: The spiral model for software engineering has evolved to encompass the best features of the classic waterfall model, while at the same time adding an element known as risk analysis. The spiral model is more appropriate for large, industrial software projects and has four main blocks/quadrants. Each release or version of the software requires going through new planning, risk analysis, engineering and customer evaluation phases and this is illustrated in the model by the spiral evolution outwards from the center. For each new release of a software product, a risk analysis audit should be performed to decide whether the new objectives can be completed within budget (time and costs), and decisions have to be made about whether to proceed. The level of planning and customer evaluation is missing from the waterfall model which is mainly concerned with small software programs. The spiral model also illustrated the evolutionary development of software where a solution may be initially proposed which is very basic (first time round the loop) and then later releases add new features and possibly a more elaborate GUI.
QUESTION NO: 106 What is not true with pre -shared key authentication within IKE / IPsec protocol: A. Pre-shared key authentication is normally based on simple passwords. B. Needs a PKI to work. C. Only one preshared key for all VPN connections is needed. D. Costly key management on large user groups. Answer: B COMMENTS: Pre-Shared Secret is usually used when both ends of the VPN lacks access to a compatible certificate server. Once you have defined all the endpoints in your VPN, you can esta blish a password that is used to authenticate the other end of the connection, this is the Pre-Shared secret. Since you are using PreShared key because you don’t have an available / compatible certificate server, IPSEC and IKE do not need to use PKI in this case (that actually provides the certificate server infrastructure).
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Which question is NOT true concerning Application Control? A. It limits end users of applications in such a way that only particular screens are visible. B. Only specific records can be requested choice. C. Particular uses of the application can be recorded for audit purposes. D. Is non-transparent to the endpoint applications so changes are needed to the applications involved. Answer: D COMMENTS: Application control provides a transparent feeling to endpoint applications when changes are needed, this is one of the features of it. With application control you can audit certain use of the applications involved and only specify record of your choice. There is also the possibility to limit the end users applications to provide access to only certain screens. Check your CISSP documentation about Application Control.
QUESTION NO: 108 In order to ensure the privacy and integrity of the data, conne ctions between firewalls over public networks should use? A. Screened subnets B. Digital certificates C. Encrypted Virtual Private Networks D. Encryption
Answer: C COMMENTS: This is the correct answer, since firewall does not mean “VPN” we have to select “Encrypted Virtual Private Networks”. With a VPN and encryption we can provide secure communication in a transparent way for the users between the endpoints achieving “Confidentiality”. This confidentiality is achieved through encryption, and this encryption relies on encryption algorithms like AES, DES, CAST and others. Screened Subnet are not related to secure data over public networks, it’s a place to put our network services accessible from the outside. Digital certificates do not provide confidentiality, they only provide integrity.
QUESTION NO: 109 What is necessary for a subject to have write access to an object in a Multi-Level Security Policy? A. The subject’s sensitivity label must dominate the object’s sensitivity label. B. The subject’s sensitivity label subordinates the object’s sensitivity label. C. The subject’s sensitivity label is subordinated by the object’s sensitivity label. D. The subject’s sensitivity label is dominated by the object’s sensitivity label.
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Answer: D COMMENTS: If a user's sensitivity label is greater than or equal to the sensitivity label, he is allowed access to the object, otherwise, he is denied access. Multi level Security methodology is used for creating a hierarchy of access. We can say that this method is used for partitioning the organization hierarchy horizontally. Multi-Level Security is considered a Mandatory Access Control method.
QUESTION NO: 110 What best describes a scenario when an employee has been shaving off pennies from multiple accounts and depositing the funds into his own ban account? A. Data fiddling B. Data diddling C. Data hiding D. Data masking
Answer: B COMMENTS: This kind of an attack involves altering the raw data just before it is processed by a computer and then changing it back after the processing is completed. This kind of attack was used in the past to make what is stated in the question, steal small quantities of money and transfer them to the attackers account. See “Data deddling crimes” on the Web.
QUESTION NO: 111 Which of the following is unlike the other three? A. El Gamal B. Teardrop C. Buffer Overflow D. Smurf Answer: A COMMENTS: Options B, C and D are all Denial of Service attacks. El Gamal is the Diffie -Hellman key exchange algorithm and is usually described as an active exchange of keys by two parties. The buffer overflow attack objective is consume the available memory for the TCP/IP protocol stack to make the machine crash. Teardrop and Smurf are DoS attacks that make use of spoofing.
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Phreakers are hackers who specialize in telephone fraud. What type of telephone fraud manipulates the line voltage to receive a tool-free call? A. Red Boxes B. Blue Boxes C. White Boxes D. Black Boxes Answer: D COMMENTS: A Black Box is a device that is hooked up to your phone that fixes your phone so that when you get a call, the caller doesn't get charged for the call. This is good for calls up to 1/2 hour, after 1/2 hour the Phone Co. gets suspicious, and then you can guess what happens. The Red box basically simulates the sounds of coins being dropped into the coin slot of a payphone. The traditional Red Box consisting of a pair of Wien-bridge oscillators with the timing controlled by 555 timer chips. The Blue Box, The mother of all boxes, The first box in history, which started the whole phreaking scene. Invented by John Draper (aka "Captain Crunch") in the early 60s, who discovered that by sending a tone of 2600Hz over the telephone lines of AT&T, it was possible to make free calls. The White Box turns a normal touch tone keypad into a portable unit. This kind of box can be commonly found in a phone shop.
QUESTION NO: 113 Which of the following groups represents the leading source of computer crime losses? A. Hackers B. Industrial saboteurs C. Foreign intelligence officers D. Employees Answer: D COMMENTS: This can be checked at the computer crime static’s on the web. Most of the attacks, actually 70% of them, come from inside the company, and 80% of them from employees of it. This is a reality, when we protect our infrastructure be sure to give great importance to internal security, we don’t when is one of the company employees going to make a strike. Hackers are also important, but less than our own employees.
QUESTION NO: 114 Which of the following steps should be performed first in a business impact analysis (BIA)? A. Identify all business units within the organization. B. Evaluate the impact of disruptive events.
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C. Estimate the Recovery Time Objectives (RTO). D. Evaluate the criticality of business functions.
Answer: A COMMENTS: Remember that when we talk about a BIA (Business Impact Analysis), we are analyzing and identifying possible issues about our infrastructure. It’s an analysis about the business, the process that it relays on, the level of the systems and a estimative of the financial impact, or in other words, how much many we loose with our systems down. The first step on it should always be the identifying of the business units in the company. You can then go to other requirements like estimate losses and downtime costs.
QUESTION NO: 115 Which of the following embodies all the detailed actions that personnel are required to follow? A. Standards B. Guidelines C. Procedures D. Baselines Answer: C COMMENTS: As stated in the dictionary, here are 3 definitions of procedure: 1. A manner of proceeding; a way of performing or effecting something: standard procedure. 2. A series of steps taken to accomplish an end: a medical procedure; evacuation procedures. 3. A set of established forms or methods for conducting the affairs of an organized body such as a business, club, or government. Its pretty visible that this is the term we are lookin g for as stated in the questions, you can check your CISSP documentation too.
QUESTION NO: 116 Immune to the effects of electromagnetic interference (EMI) and therefore has a much longer effective usable length (up to two kilometers in some cases) is? A. Coaxial cable B. Twisted Pair cable C. Axial cable D. Fiber Optic cable
Answer: D
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COMMENTS: Since fiber optics does not use electrical signals to transmit the information (it uses lights that goes through the mirrored silvered cable from source to end), its not affected by EMI (Electro Magnetic Interference) like other copper transmission methods like 10base5 and 10base2, therefore EMI does not affect the possible transmission distance. Fiber optics can have a great distance between end points, much greater than the copper transmission methods. Examples of Fiber optics standards are: 100BaseFX and 1000BaseFX.
QUESTION NO: 117 Which of the following is the most reliable, secure means of removing data from magnetic storage media such as a magnetic tape, or cassette? A. Degaussing B. Parity Bit Manipulation C. Certification D. Buffer overflow
Answer: A COMMENTS: An alternating current (AC) bulk eraser (degausser) is used for complete erasure of data and other signal on magnetic media. Degaussing is a process where magnetic media is exposed to a powerful, alternating magnetic field. Degaussing removes any previously written data, leaving the media in a magnetically randomized (blank) state. The degausser must subject the media to an alternating magnetic field of sufficient intensity to saturate the media and then by slowly withdrawing or reducing the field leaves the magnetic media in a magnetically neutral state.
QUESTION NO: 118 Which of the following is an advantage of prototyping? A. Prototype systems can provide significant time and cost savings. B. Change control is often less complicated with prototype systems. C. It ensures that functions or extras are not added to the intended system. D. Strong internal controls are easier to implement. Answer: A COMMENTS: The Prototype Phase is also called the “Proof of Concept” Phase. Whether it’s called one or the other depends on what the creator is trying to “prove.” If the main deliverable of the Phase includes a working version of the product’s technical features, it’s a “prototype.” If the main deliverable just looks like it has the product’s technical features, then it’s a “proof of concept.” Prototypes can save time and money because you can test some functionality earlier in the process. You don’t have to make the whole final product to begin testing it.
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QUESTION NO: 119 The IS security analyst’s participation in which of the following system development life cycle phases provides maximum benefit to the organization? A. System requirements definition. B. System design. C. Program development. D. Program testing.
Answer: A COMMENTS: The System Requirements definition phase of the development life cycle is the most influenced by a Security analyst, because in this phase all the requirements, including security ones, of the system to be development are set. In this phase, the Security analyst can see and taste the environment and provide feedback in relation to the requirements of the sys tem in that environment to provide security.
QUESTION NO: 120 Controls are implemented to? A. Eliminate risk and reduce the potential for loss. B. Mitigate risk and eliminate the potential for loss. C. Mitigate risk and reduce the potential for loss. D. Eliminate risk and eliminate the potential for loss. Answer: C COMMENTS: That’s the essence of Controls, you put them in your environment to minimize the impact of a potential loss, with them you can also mitigate the risk and obtain the first through this. Controls are a very good practice to secure an environment, they should be considered by any security professional, CISSP or not, the risk should be minimized as much as you can.
QUESTION NO: 121 A circuit level gateway is ________ when compared to an application level firewall. A. Easier to maintain. B. More difficult to maintain. C. More secure. D. Slower
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Answer: A COMMENTS: Since circuit level gateways are not as high in the OSI model for the inspection as Application level firewalls, they are easier to maintain and configure. Application layer firewalls are up to layer 7 of the OSI model and provide a great bunch of options and complex configurations. Application layer firewalls are more secure than circuit level gateway because they can track and analyze information up to layer 7, a drawback to this, is that this functionality makes them slower.
QUESTION NO: 122 In IPSec, if the communication mode is gateway-gateway or host-gateway: A. Only tunnel mode can be used. B. Only transport mode can be used. C. Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP) authentication must be used. D. Both tunnel and transport mode can be used. Answer: C COMMENTS: ESP or Encrypted Security Payload, is a header that when its added to an IP datagram, protects the confidentiality, integrity and authenticity of the data. AH and ESP can be used separately or together. As defined by the IETF, IPSec transport mode can only be used when both the source and destination systems understand IPSEC. In most cases you deploy IPSEC in tunnel mode. In this transport mode (gateway to gateway and gateway to host) you must use ESP for authentication.
QUESTION NO: 123 Which integrity model defines a constrained data item, an integrity verification procedure and a transformation procedure? A. The Take-Grant model B. The Biba integrity model C. The Clark Wilson integrity model D. The Bell-LaPadula integrity model Answer: C COMMENTS: The Clark-Wilson model was developed to address security issues in commercial environments. The model uses two categories of mechanisms to realize integrity: well-formed transactions and separation of duty. It defines a constraint data item, a integrity verification and a transformation of that object. A possible way to represent a constraint that only certain trusted programs can modify objects is using application:checksum condition, where the checksum ensures authenticity of the application. Another way is using application:endorser condition, which indicates that a valid certificate, stating that the application has been endorsed by the specified endorser, must be presented. Static separation of duty is
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enforced by the security administrator when assigning group membership. Dynamic separation of duty enforces control over how permissions are used at the access time
QUESTION NO: 124 Which of the following rules pertaining to a Business Continuity Plan/Disaster Recovery Plan is incorrect? A. In order to facilitate recover, a single plan should cover all locations. B. There should be requirements for to form a committee to decide a course of action. These decisions should be made ahead of time and incorporated into the plan. C. In its procedures and tasks, the plan should refer to functions, not specific individuals. D. Critical vendors should be contacted ahead of time to validate equipment can be obtained in a timely manner.
Answer: A COMMENTS: This is not the best practice, even more for the CISSP exam. Continuity / recovery plans should be make for every location in separate. This is because when there is a disaster, Its not usually in all the different locations, its better to have one plan for each of it so you can use and follow only the plan of the affected site and don’t bother the other ones.
QUESTION NO: 125 What are suitable protocols for securing VPN connections? A. S/MIME and SSH B. TLS and SSL C. IPsec and L2TP D. PKCS# and X.509 Answer: C COMMENTS: Both of them can be used to create and secure VPN’s. The Layer 2 Tunnel Protocol (L2TP) is an emerging Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standard that combines the best features of two existing tunneling protocols: Cisco's Layer 2 Forwarding (L2F) and Microsoft's Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP). L2TP is an extension to the Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP), which is an important component for VPNs. VPNs allow users and telecommuters to connect to their corporate intranets or extranets. IPSec is a series of guidelines for the protection of Internet Protocol (IP) communications. It specifies ways for securing private information transmitted over public networks. Services supported by IPSec include confidentiality (encryption), authenticity (proof of sender), integrity (detection of data tampering) and replay protection (defense against unauthorized re-sending of data). It work on layer 3 of the OSI model and is the most common protocols used to create VPNs.
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QUESTION NO: 126 Which of the following questions is less likely to help in assessing identification and authentication controls? A. Is a current list maintained and approved of authorized users and their access? B. Are passwords changed at least every ninety days or earlier if needed? C. Are inactive user identifications disabled after a specified period of time? D. Is there a process for reporting incidents?
Answer: D COMMENTS: We just some common sense to answer this question correctly, why are we going to ask about process reporting for incidents?, does is help relating to ide ntification and authentication?, I don’t think so. There are other more interesting questions, password deal with authentication, inactive user Ids are also related to identification. But the most important to me, know if there is a list with authorized users and their current access, this can help you to identify unauthorized activities.
QUESTION NO: 127 The primary purpose for using one -way encryption of user passwords within a system is which of the following? A. It prevents an unauthorized person from trying multiple passwords in one logon attempt. B. It prevents an unauthorized person from reading or modifying the password list. C. It minimizes the amount of storage required for user passwords. D. It minimizes the amount of processing time used for encrypting passwords.
Answer: B COMMENTS: This kind of encryption flavor increases security for passwords, if you use a one way encryption algorithm, you know that the encryption is not reversible, you cannot get the original value that you provided as a password from the resulting hash with any key or algorithm. This increase security in the way that when a person see the password list, it will only see the hash values and cannot read the original password or modify them without getting corruption.
QUESTION NO: 128 The security of a computer application is most effective and economical in which of the following cases? A. The system is optimized prior to the addition of security. B. The system is procured off-the-shelf.
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C. The system is customized to meet the specific security threat. D. The system is designed originally to provide the necessary security.
Answer: D COMMENTS: This is very obvious, if your system is designed from the ground up to provide security, its going to be cheaper and more effective at the end, because you don’t need re-analysis, re-coding, and re structure of the internal code of the computer application. If you don’t address security at the beginning you will also need to spend time and money reviewing the code to try to put the security infrastructure in some place of it.
QUESTION NO: 129 In the following choices there is one that is a typical biometric characteristics that is not used to uniquely authenticate an individual’s identity? A. Retina scans B. Iris scans C. Palm scans D. Skin scans Answer: D COMMENTS: Answer A, B and C can be used to uniquely identify a person, but in the case of the Skin, there are no unique characteristics that can differentiate two distinct individuals in an acceptable accurate way. In the case of the IRIS and the Retina, there are not two of them equal. In the case of the palm, every person has different marks on it. The skin is common to all and does not have specific textures or marks to make it unique in comparison to another individual.
QUESTION NO: 130 Which of the following proves or disproves a specific act though oral testimony based on information gathered through the witness’s five senses? A. Direct evidence B. Circumstantial evidence C. Conclusive evidence D. Corroborative evidence
Answer: A COMMENTS: As stated in the CISSP documentation, “If you want to make achieve the validation or revalidation of the oral testimony of a witness, you need to provide physical, direct evidence to backup your
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statements and override the five senses of an oral testimony”. Circumstantial or Corroborative evidence is not enough in this case, we need direct, relevant evidence backing up the facts.
QUESTION NO: 131 Which of the following would be defined as an absence of safeguard that could be exploited? A. A threat B. A vulnerability C. A risk D. An exposure
Answer: B COMMENTS: In IT, a vulnerability is the weakness of a System to be exploited and corrupted by a security hole. There is always a risk that our systems been vulnerable, with security we cannot make the risk to be 0%, but we can decrease the possibility of a threat becoming in a successful attack through one of those vulnerabilities. There is no system without vulnerabilities, we need to patch our systems frequently to reduce the risk of a threat through a vulnerability of one of our systems.
QUESTION NO: 132 Which of the following is a LAN transmission protocol? A. Ethernet B. Ring topology C. Unicast D. Polling Answer: D COMMENTS: Lets make the right answer through the process of elimination so you can use this technique in your exams. Ethernet is not a LAN transmission protocol, it’s a LAN technology, its also a standard. A ring topology, is just that, a topology, a method to physically distribute hosts in a network. Unicast is the term used to describe communication where a piece of information is sent from one point to another point Unicast it’s not a LAN transmission protocol. Well, the only remaining answer is “D”, “Polling”, through elimination I take it as correct.
QUESTION NO: 133 Why would a database be denormalized?
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A. To ensure data integrity. B. To increase processing efficiency. C. To prevent duplication of data. D. To save storage space.
Answer: B COMMENTS: Denormalization is the process of attempting to optimize the performance of data storage by adding redundant data. It is necessary because current DBMSs are not fully relational. A fully relational DBMS would be able to preserve full normalization at the logical level, while allowing it to be mapped to performance-tuned physical level. Database designers often justify denormalization on performance issues, but they should note that logical denormalization can easily break the consistency of the database, one of the all-important ACID properties. However, a designer can achieve the performance benefits while retaining consistency by performing denormalization at a physical level; such denormalization is often called caching.
QUESTION NO: 134 Under “Named Perils” form of Property insurance A. Burden of proof that particular loss is covered is on Insurer. B. Burden of proof that particular loss is not covered is on Insurer. C. Burden of proof that particular loss is covered is on Insured. D. Burden of proof that particular loss is not covered is on Insured. Answer: C COMMENTS: Here is something on “Named Perils” for your understanding: “Named Perils is a formal and specific listing of perils covered in a policy providing property insurance. A policy covering for damage by fire is said to cover for "the named peril" of fire”. As you can see, Answer C is correct.
QUESTION NO: 135 The following is not true: A. Since the early days of mankind humans have struggled with the problems of protecting assets. B. The addition of a PIN keypad to the card reader was a solution to unreported card or lost card problem. C. There has never been of problem of lost keys. D. Human guard is an inefficient and sometimes ineffective method of protecting resources. Answer: C
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COMMENTS: This is absolutely false, this problem can be seen almost anywhere. There have always been trouble with the lost of keys. Some of those looses are more important than others, its not the same to lost the key of the company safe box, that lost the key of you locker with that contains your shoes. This is obviously an incorrect statement, answer C is the one in here.
QUESTION NO: 136 Which of the following statements pertaining to software testing approaches is correct? A. A bottom-up approach allows interface errors to be detected earlier. B. A top-down approach allows errors in critical modules to be detected earlier. C. The test plan and results should be retained as part of the system’s permanent documentation. D. Black box testing is predicted on a close examination of procedural detail. Answer: C COMMENTS: This is an absolute best practice in the software testing field, you should always have to keep all your testing approaches with the results as part of the product documentation. This can help you in the case you have problems with some tasks or components of the software in the future, you can check back your testing and results and see if the system was making the tasks correctly and if anything changed from that environment.
QUESTION NO: 137 Which Orange Book evaluation level is described as “Structured Protection”? A. A1 B. B3 C. B2 D. B1 Answer: C COMMENTS: In class (B2) systems, the TCB is based on a clearly defined and documented formal security policy model that requires the discretionary and mandatory access control enforcement found in class (B1) systems be extended to all subjects and objects in the ADP system. In addition, covert channels are addressed. The TCB must be carefully structured into protection-critical and non-protection-critical elements. Class B corresponds to “Structured Protection” inside the Orange Book. Look the Orange Book at http://www.radium.ncsc.mil/tpep/library/rainbow/5200.28-STD.html
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QUESTION NO: 138 Which of the following questions should any user not be able to answer regarding their organization information security policy? A. Who is involved in establishing the security policy? B. Where is the organization security policy defined? C. What are the actions that need to be performed in case of a disaster? D. Who is responsible for monitoring compliance to the organization security policy?
Answer: C COMMENTS: According to CISSP documentation, the actual definition and procedures defined inside an organization disaster recovery policy are of private nature. Only people working in the company and with a role inside it should know about those procedures. Its not a good practice to be divulgating Disaster recovery procedures to external people. Many times external people need to know who is involved in it, and who is responsible. This could be the case of a vendor providing replacement equipment in case of disaster.
QUESTION NO: 139 RAID Level 1 mirrors the data from one disk to set of disks using which of the following techniques? A. Copying the data onto another disk or set of disks. B. Moving the data onto another disk or set of disks. C. Establishing dual connectivity to another disk or set of disks. D. Establishing dual addressing to another disk or set of disks. Answer: A COMMENTS: RAID 1 or Mirroring is a technique in which data is written to two duplicate disks
simultaneously through a copy process. This way if one of the disk drives fails, the system can instantly switch to the other disk without any loss of data or service. Disk mirroring is used commonly in on- line database systems where it's critical that the data be accessible at all times. RAID means “Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks”.
QUESTION NO: 140 Which type of firewall can be used to track connectionless protocols such as UDP and RPC? A. Statefull inspection firewalls B. Packet filtering firewalls C. Application level firewalls D. Circuit level firewalls
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Answer: A COMMENTS: Here are some characteristics of Statefull Inspection technology on Firewalls: 1. Scan information from all layers in the packet. 2. Save state information derived from previous communications, such as the outgoin g Port command of an FTP session, so that incoming data communication can be verified against it. 3. Provides tracking support for connectionless protocols through the use of session state databases. 4. Allow state information derived from other applications access through the firewall for authorized services only, such as previously authenticated users. 5. Evaluate and manipulate flexible expressions based on communication and application derived state information.
QUESTION NO: 141 Which of the following items should not be retained in an E-mail directory? A. Drafts of documents. B. Copies of documents. C. Permanent records. D. Temporary documents. Answer: C COMMENTS: This is another matter of common sense, the CISSP exam has many situations like this. Its not a good practice to have Permanent documents in your e-mail, this is because you don’t know if your – mail is always backed up, and maybe the document must be available in a corporate repository. There is not problem to have Copies, draft or temporary documents in your e-mail. The important ones for the company are the Permanent documents.
QUESTION NO: 142 Which of the following department managers would be best suited to oversee the development of an information security policy? A. Information systems B. Human resources C. Business operations D. Security administration
Answer: C COMMENTS: He is the most appropriate manager, this is because he know the inns and outs of the business processes inside the company. Remember tha t he manages the business operations, and are those operations the ones that make the company live and generate the revenue. He knows who should access what and when. Security administrators develop the policy with the information provided by persons like the
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Business operations manager. Human Resources is not appropriate in this case, and the Information systems manager know about the technology, but not the business needs of the company.
QUESTION NO: 143 Which of the following counterme asures is not appropriate for war dialing attacks? A. Monitoring and auditing for such activity. B. Disabling call forwarding. C. Making sure only necessary phone numbers are made public. D. Using completely different numbers for voice and data accesses.
Answer: B COMMENTS: War dialing, or scanning, has been a common activity in the computer underground and computer security industry for decades. Hollywood made war dialing popular with the 1983 movie, War Games, in which a teenager searching for a videogame company ultimately uncovers a government nuclear war warning system. The act of war dialing is extremely simple – a host computer dials a given range of telephone numbers using a modem. Every telephone number that answers with a modem and successfully connects to the host is stored in a log. Disabling call forwarding is not a useful countermeasure because it’s the attacker machine the one who connects to the attacked system and forwarding is not an issue inside the attack. Answer A, C and D can be used as countermeasures to harder the war dial attack.
QUESTION NO: 144 Which of the following tools is less likely to be used by a hacker? A. I0phtcrack B. Tripwire C. Crack D. John the Ripper Answer: B COMMENTS: Tripwire is a tool that checks to see what has changed on your system. The program monitors key attributes of files that should not change, including binary signature, size, expected change of size, etc. The hard part is doing it the right way, balancing security, maintenance, and functionality. This tool is not usually used by hackers to attack, its usually used to defend against hackers attacks. L0phtcrack is a hacker utility to get passwords, Crack and John the Ripper are also password crackers.
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QUESTION NO: 145 Which of the following logical access exposures involves changing data before, or as it is entered into the computer? A. Data diddling B. Salami techniques C. Trojan horses D. Viruses
Answer: A COMMENTS: This kind of attack involves altering the raw data just before it is processed by a computer and then changing it back after the processing is completed. This kind of attack was used in the past to steal small quantities of money and transfer them to the attackers account, there are many other uses too. Trojan horses open ports without the user knowledge to permit remote control and a Virus is a malicious piece of code that executed inside your computer.
QUESTION NO: 146 Which of the following computer aided software engineering (CASE) products is used for developing detailed designs, such as screen and report layouts? A. Lower CASE B. Middle CASE C. Upper CASE D. I-CASE
Answer: B COMMENTS: This is the proper name, you can search for “Middle CASE” on the Internet. “Middle CASE” its a CASE flavor and UML design tool that provides the required functionality like screen and report layouts and detailed designs. There are many well known vendors providing this kind of tools for the development process of Software.
QUESTION NO: 147 What is called the number of columns in a table? A. Schema B. Relation C. Degree D. Cardinality
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Answer: C COMMENTS: In database terminology, is the same to say that the number of Degrees is “X” and that the number of columns is “X” inside a Table. This question is just trying to test our knowledge of rare, difficult to fin terminology. You can check this in the knowledgebase of Oracle. When we talk about degrees, we are just talking about columns. The schema is the structure of the database, and the relations are the way each table relates to others.
QUESTION NO: 148 Which of the following is the most reliable authentication device? A. Variable callback system B. Smart Card system C. Fixed callback system D. Combination of variable and fixed callback system. Answer: B COMMENTS: The smart card, an intelligent token, is a credit card sized plastic card embedded with an integrated circuit chip. It provides not only memory capacity, but computational capability as well. The selfcontainment of smart card makes it resistant to attack as it does not need to depend upon potentially vulnerable external resources. Because of this characteristic, smart cards are often used in different applications which require strong security protection and authentication. Option B is the most correct option, this is because Callback systems are not considered very reliable in the CISSP examination, Smart cards can also provide 2 mode authentication.
QUESTION NO: 149 Which of the following firewall rules is less likely to be found on a firewall installed between and organization internal network and the Internet? A. Permit all traffic to and from local host. B. Permit all inbound ssh traffic C. Permit all inbound tcp connections. D. Permit all syslog traffic to log-server.abc.org.
Answer: C COMMENTS: Option “C” is a very bad practice in a firewall connecting one of its interfaces to a public network like Internet. Since in that rule you are allowing all inbound TCP traffic, the hackers can send all the attacks they want to any TCP port, they can make port scanning, Syn Attacks, and many other dangerous DoS activities to our private network. Permit the traffic from local host is a best practice, our firewall is the local host. Permit SSH (Secure Shell) is also good because this protocol use cryptography.
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QUESTION NO: 150 The Internet can be utilized by either? A. Public or private networks (with a Virtual Private Networks). B. Private or public networks (with a Virtual Private Networks). C. Home or private networks (with a Virtual Private Networks). D. Public or home networks (with a Virtual Private Networks). Answer: B COMMENTS: This is true, you can utilize Internet from a Private network and get access through an access translation method that gives you a valid IP address to make the request. Or you can access the Internet directly from a routable, public IP address contained in a public network. To increase security, you can create VPN´s to pass information between two endpoints with confidentiality through the Internet.
QUESTION NO: 151 This backup method must be made regardless of whether Differential or Incremental methods are used. A. Full Backup Method B. Incremental backup method C. Differential backup method D. Tape backup method
Answer: A COMMENTS: Since the “Full” backup method provides a baseline for our systems for Restore, the full backup must be done at least once regardless of the method you are using. Its very common to use full backups in combination with incremental or differential ones to decrease the backup time (however you increment the restore time), but there is no way to maintain a system only with incremental or differential backups. You always need to begin from your restore baseline, the Full Backup.
QUESTION NO: 152 Why do buffer overflows happen? A. Because buffers can only hold so much data. B. Because input data is not checked for appropriate length at time of input. C. Because they are an easy weakness to exploit. D. Because of insufficient system memory.
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Answer: D COMMENTS: Buffer overflows are the most common type of DoS attack. Here, an attacker sends more data than the application’s buffer can hold. When the amount of data exceeds the buffer size, the extra data overflows under the stack, often causing the application or the whole system to crash. In some cases, the data can be carefully crafted to include machine code that will execute when it overflows onto the stack.
QUESTION NO: 153 Which of the following should not be performed by an operator? A. Mounting disk or tape B. Backup and recovery C. Data entry D. Handling hardware Answer: C COMMENTS: This is very obvious, the operators are responsible of making operative tasks that deals with the hardware and software implementations, they can handle the hardware and put t in condition for the user, be in charge of the backup and restore procedures and Mounting the disk or tapes for the backup. Those are all common tasks. When we ta lk about the data entry, is the user who has to make does, If the operator do that too, what is the user going to do?
QUESTION NO: 154 What security model is dependant on security labels? A. Discretionary access control B. Label-based access control C. Mandatory access control D. Non-discretionary access control Answer: C COMMENTS: With mandatory controls, only administrators and not owners of resources may make decisions that bear on or derive from policy. Only an administrator may change the category of a resource, and no one may grant a right of access that is explicitly forbidden in the access control policy. This kind of access control method is based on Security labels. It is important to note that mandatory controls are prohibitive (i.e., all that is not expressly permitted is forbidden).
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Detection capabilities of Host-based ID systems are limited by the incompleteness of which of the following? A. Audit log capabilities B. Event capture capabilities C. Event triage capabilities D. Audit notification capabilities Answer: A COMMENTS: This is one of the weakest point of IDS systems installed on the individual hosts. Since much of the malicious activity could be circulating through the network, and this kind of IDS usually have small logging capabilities and of local nature. So any activity happening in the network could go unnoticed, and intrusions can’t be tracked as in depth as we could with an enterprise IDS solution providing centralized logging capabilities.
QUESTION NO: 156 Computer crime is generally made possible by which of the following? A. The perpetrator obtaining training & special knowledge. B. Victim carelessness. C. Collusion with others in information processing D. System design flaws. Answer: B COMMENTS: This is a real problem, nobody thinks that can be victim of a computer crime until it is. There is a big problem relating to the people thinking about this kind of attacks. Computer crimes can be very important and can make great damage to enterprises. Computer Crime will decrease once people begin to think about the Risks and begin to protect their systems from the most common attacks.
QUESTION NO: 157 The structures, transmission methods, transport formats, and security measures that are used to provide integrity, availability, authentication, and confidentiality for transmissions over private and public communications networks and media includes? A. The Telecommunications and Network Security domain. B. The Telecommunications and Netware Security domain. C. The Technical communications and Network Security domain. D. The Telnet and Network Security domain.
Answer: A
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COMMENTS: This is pretty straight forward. The four principal pillars of computer security: integrity, authentication, confidentiality and availability are all part of the network security and telecommunication domain. Why? Because those pillars deal with that. We provide integrity through digital signatures, authentication through passwords, confidentiality through encryption and availability by fault tolerance and disaster recovery. All of those are networking and telecommunication components.
QUESTION NO: 158 Which of the following is the lowest TCSEC class where in the sys tem must protected against covert storage channels (but not necessarily covert timing channels)? A. B2 B. B1 C. B3 D. A1
Answer: A COMMENTS: The B2 class referenced in the orange book is the formal security policy model based on device labels that can use DAC (Discretionary access controls) and MAC (Mandatory Access Controls). It provides functionality about covert channel control. It does not require covert timing channels. You can review the B2 section of the Orange Book.
QUESTION NO: 159 Which type of control is concerned with avoiding occurrences of risks? A. Deterrent controls B. Detective controls C. Preventive controls D. Compensating controls Answer: C COMMENTS: Preventive controls deals with the avoidance of risk through the diminution of probabilities. Is like the example we read earlier about the dogs. Just to remember, Since we want to prevent something from happening, we can go out and buy some Guard dogs to make the job. You are buying them because you want to prevent something from happening. The intruder will see the dogs and will maybe go back, this prevents an attack, this dogs are a form of preventive control.
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QUESTION NO: 160 The basic function of an FRDS is to? A. Protect file servers from data loss and a loss of availability due to disk failure. B. Persistent file servers from data gain and a gain of availability due to disk failure. C. Prudent file servers from data loss and a loss of acceptability due to disk failure. D. Packet file servers from data loss and a loss of accountability due to disk failure. Answer: A COMMENTS: FRDS systems will give us the functionality to protect our servers from disk failure an allow us to have highly available file services in our production servers. FRDS provides high availability against many types of disk failures and well known problems, if one disk goes down, the others still work providing no downtime. FRDS solutions are the preferred way to protect file servers against data corruption and loss. You can see more about FRDS in the Internet, search “FRDS System”.
QUESTION NO: 161 Which of the following protocols does not operate at the data link layer (layer 2)? A. PPP B. RARP C. L2F D. ICMP Answer: D COMMENTS: Internet Control Message Protocol. ICMP is used for diagnostics in the network. The Unix program, ping, uses ICMP messages to detect the status of other hosts in the net. ICMP messages can either be queries (in the case of ping) or error reports, such as when a network is unreachable. This protocol resides in layer 3 of the OSI model (Network layer).
QUESTION NO: 162 This tape format can be used to backup data systems in addition to its original intended audio used by: A. Digital Audio tape (DAT) B. Digital video tape (DVT) C. Digital Casio Tape (DCT) D. Digital Voice Tape (DVT)
Answer: A
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COMMENTS: Digital Audio Tape (DAT or R-DAT) is a signal recording and playback medium introduced by Sony in 1987. In appearance it is similar to a compact audio cassette, using 1/8" magnetic tape enclosed in a protective shell, but is roughly half the size at 73 mm x 54 mm x 10.5 mm. As the name suggests the recording is digital rather than analog, DAT converting and recording at the same rate as a CD (44.1 kHz sampling rate and 16 bits quantization) without data compression. This means that the entire input signal is retained. If a digital source is copied then the DAT will produce an exact clone. The format was designed for audio use, but through an ISO standard it has been adopted for general data storage, storing from 4 to 40 GB on a 120 meter tape depending on the standard and compression (DDS-1 to DDS-4). It is, naturally, sequential-access media and is commonly used for backups. Due to the higher requirements for integrity in data backups a computer-grade DAT was introduced.
QUESTION NO: 163 By examining the “state” and “context” of the incoming data packets, it helps to track the protocols that are considered “connectionless”, such as UDP-based applications and Remote Procedure Calls (RPC). This type of firewall system is used in? A. First generation firewall systems. B. Second generation firewall systems. C. Third generation firewall systems. D. Fourth generation firewall systems.
Answer: C COMMENTS: Statefull inspection is a third generation firewall technology designed to be aware of, and inspect, not only the information being received, but the dynamic connection and transmission state of the information being received. Control decisions are made by analyzing and utilizing the following: Communication Information, Communication derived state, Application derived state and information manipulation. Here are some characteristics of Statefull Inspection technology on Firewalls: 1. Scan information from all layers in the packet. 2. Save state information derived from previous communications, such as the outgoing Port command of an FTP session, so that incoming data communication can be verified against it. 3. Provides tracking support for connectionless protocols through the use of session state databases. 4. Allow state information derived from other applications access through the firewall for authorized services only, such as previously authenticated users. 5. Evaluate and manipulate flexible expressions based on communication and application derived state information.
QUESTION NO: 164 Guards are appropriate whenever the function required by the security program involves which of the following?
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A. The use of discriminating judgment. B. The use of physical force. C. The operation of access control devices. D. The need to detect unauthorized access.
Answer: A COMMENTS: This is the correct answer, we don’t have guards only to use physical force, that is not the real functiona lity of them if your security policy is well oriented. They are not only there to operate control devices and to detect unauthorized access, as stated in CISSP documentation, the appropriate function of a guard inside a security program is the use of discriminating judgment.
QUESTION NO: 165 A server cluster looks like a? A. Single server from the user’s point of view. B. Dual server from the user’s point of view. C. Tripe server from the user’s point of view. D. Quardle server from the user’s point of view. Answer: A COMMENTS: A “Cluster” is a grouping of machines running certain services providing high availability and fault tolerance fro them. In other words, they are grouped together as a means of fail over support. From the users view, a cluster is a single server, but its only a logical one, you can have an array of 4 server in cluster all with the same IP address (/achieving correct resolution through ARP), there is no difference for the client.
QUESTION NO: 166 Which of the following are functions that are compatible in a properly segregated environment? A. Application programming and computer operation. B. System programming and job control analysis. C. Access authorization and database administration. D. System development and systems maintenance. Answer: D COMMENTS: If you think about it, System development and system maintenance are perfectly compatible, you can develop in the systems for certain time, and when it time for a maintenance, you stop the development process an make the maintenance. It’s a pretty straight forward process. The other answer do not provide the simplicity and freedom of this option.
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QUESTION NO: 167 Encryption is applicable to all of the following OSI/ISO layers except: A. Network la yer B. Physical layer C. Session layer D. Data link layer Answer: B COMMENTS: The Physical Layer describes the physical properties of the various communications media, as well as the electrical properties and interpretation of the exchanged signals. Ex: this layer defines the size of Ethernet coaxial cable, the type of BNC connector used, and the termination method. You cannot encrypt nothing at this layer because its physical, it is not protocol / software based. Network, Data link and transport layer supports encryption.
QUESTION NO: 168 The Computer Security Policy Model the Orange Book is based on is which of the following? A. Bell-LaPadula B. Data Encryption Standard C. Kerberos D. Tempest Answer: A COMMENTS: Following the publication of the Anderson report, considerable research was initiated into formal models of security policy requirements and of the mechanisms that would implement and enforce those policy models as a security kernel. Prominent among these efforts was the ESD-sponsored development of the Bell and LaPadula model, an abstract formal treatment of DoD security policy.[2] Using mathematics and set theory, the model precisely defines the notion of secure state, fundamental modes of access, and the rules for granting subjects specific modes of access to objects. Finally, a theorem is proven to demonstrate that the rules are security-preserving operations, so that the application of any sequence of the rules to a system that is in a secure state will result in the system entering a new state that is also secure. This theorem is known as the Basic Security Theorem.
QUESTION NO: 169 Which type of attack would a competitive intelligence attack best classify as?
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A. Business attack B. Intelligence attack C. Financial attack D. Grudge attack
Answer: A COMMENTS: Since we are talking about a competitive intelligence attack, we can classify it as a Business attack because it is disrupting business activities. Intelligence attacks are one of the most commonly used to hurt a company where more it hurts, in its information. To see more about competitive intelligence attacks you can take a look at some CISSP study guide. It could be the CISSP gold edition guide.
QUESTION NO: 170 Which of the following is responsible for the most security issues? A. Outside espionage B. Hackers C. Personnel D. Equipment failure Answer: C COMMENTS: As I stated earlier in the comments, the great part of the attacks to companies comes from the personnel. Hackers are out there and attack some targets, but should never forget that your worst enemy can be inside of your company. Is for that that we usually implement IDS and profundity security. It’s a very good practice to install Host based IDS to limit the ability of internal attackers through the machines. Another problem with personal is the ignorance, there are time that they just don’t know what they are doing, and certainly are violating the security policy.
QUESTION NO: 171 Which of the following goals is NOT a goal of Problem Management? A. To eliminate all problems. B. To reduce failures to a manageable level. C. To prevent the occurrence or re-occurrence of a problem. D. To mitigate the negative impact of problems on computing services and resources. Answer: A COMMENTS: This is not possible, nobody can eliminate all problems, only god can, this is a reality and Problem Management Gurus know that. With problem management we can reduce failures, prevent
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reoccurrence of problems and mitigate negative impact as much as we can, but we cannot eliminate all problems, this is not a perfect world.
QUESTION NO: 172 Examples of types of physical access controls include all except which of the following? A. badges B. locks C. guards D. passwords
Answer: D COMMENTS: A password is not a physical thing, it’s a logical one. You can control physical access with armed guards, by locking doors and using badges to open doors, but you can’t relate password to a physical environment. Just to remember, Passwords are used to verify that the user of an ID is the owner of the ID. The ID-password combination is unique to each user and therefore provides a means of holding users accountable for their activity on the system. They are related to software, not to hardware.
QUESTION NO: 173 Which of the following statements pertaining to the (ISC)2 Code of Ethics is incorrect? A. All information systems security professionals who are certified by (ISC)2 recognize that such a certification is a privilege that must be both earned and maintained. B. All information systems security professionals who are certified by (ISC)2 shall provide diligent and competent service to principals. C. All information systems security professionals who are certified by (ISC)2 shall discourage such behavior as associating or preparing to associate with criminals or criminal behavior. D. All information systems security professionals who are certified by (ISC)2 shall promote the understanding and acceptance of prudent information security measures. Answer: C COMMENTS: This is not one of the statements of the ISC2 code of Ethics, ISC2 certified people is free to get in association with any person and any party they want. ISC2 thinks that their certified people must have liberty of choice in their associations. However ISC2 ask the certified professionals to promote the certification and the understanding and acceptance of security measures, they also ask the certified people to provide competent services and be proud of their exclusive ISC2 certified professional status. I think is very fair, you are free to who where you want, with the people you want, but always be proud of your certification and your skills as a security professional.
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QUESTION NO: 174 Which DES modes can best be used for authentication? A. Cipher Block Chaining and Electronic Code Book. B. Cipher Block Chaining and Output Feedback. C. Cipher Block Chaining and Cipher Feedback. D. Output Feedback and Electronic Code Book. Answer: C COMMENTS: Cipher Block Chaining (CBC) uses feedback to feed the result of encryption back into the encryption of the next block. The plain-text is XOR'ed with the previous cipher-text block before it is encrypted. The encryption of each block de pends on all the previous blocks. This requires that the decryption side processes all encrypted blocks sequentially. This mode requires a random initialization vector which is XOR'ed with the first data block before it is encrypted. The initialization vector does not have to be kept secret. The initialization vector should be a random number (or a serial number), to ensure that each message is encrypted uniquely. In the Cipher Feedback Mode (CFB) is data encrypted in units smaller than the block size. This mode can be used to encrypt any number of bits e.g. single bits or single characters (bytes) before sending across an insecure data link. Both of those method can be best used to provide user authentication capabilities.
QUESTION NO: 175 In the OSI / ISO model, at what layer are some of the SLIP, CSLIP, PPP control functions are provided? A. Link B. Transport C. Presentation D. Application Answer: A COMMENTS: The Data Link layer takes raw data from the physical layer and gives it logical structure. This logic includes information about where the data is meant to go, which computer sends the data, and the overall validity of the bytes sent. The Data Link layer also controls functions of logical network topologies and physical addressing as well as data transmission synchronization and corrections. SLIP, CSLIP and PPP provide control functions at the Data Link Layer (layer 2 of the OSI model).
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QUESTION NO: 176 Which of the following best describes the purpose of debugging programs? A. To generate random data that can be used to test programs before implementing them B. To ensure that program coding flaws are detected and corrected. C. To protect, during the programming phase, valid changes from being overwritten by other changes. D. To compare source code versions before transferring to the test environment. Answer: B COMMENTS: A bug is a coding error in a computer program. The process of finding bugs before program final users is called debugging. Debugging starts after the code is first written and continues in successive stage as code is combined with other units of programming to form a software product, such as an operating system or application. The main reason to debug is to detect and correct errors in the program.
QUESTION NO: 177 With RAID Level 5 the spare drives that replace the failed drives are usually hot swappable, meaning the can be replaced on the server while the? A. System is up and running. B. System is down and running. C. System is in-between and running. D. System is centre and running.
Answer: A COMMENTS: This is true, since RAID 5 uses parity to provide fault tolerance through the array, once of the disk in it can become corrupted, and you usually can just take it out without turning off the system (Hot SWAP) and plug a spare disk on the bay. Then the array will automatically begin to reconstruct the information in the new disk with the parity contained through the other disks in the array. This Hot Swap capability is usually present in enterprise servers that require high availability.
QUESTION NO: 178 What is the process that RAID Level 0 uses as it creates one large disk by using several disks? A. Striping B. Mirroring C. Integrating D. Clustering
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Answer: A COMMENTS: This is the correct term, with stripping RAID 0 can evenly distribute the information through the disk that form the array in a transparent way for the final user. With RAID 0 you can be writing to 12 disk simultaneously and you see them as only one large logical partition. This level of RAID does not provide fault tolerance but provides an increase in performance because you are writing and reading from many disks and heads. An example of this stripping is the software version that comes wit h Windows 2000, it supports up to 32 disks.
QUESTION NO: 179 Which of the following is used to create and delete views and relations within tables? A. SQL Data Definition Language B. SQL Data Manipulation Language C. SQL Data Relational Language D. SQL Data Identification Language Answer: A COMMENTS: SQL supports the data definition language (DDL) for creating, altering, and deleting tables and indexes. SQL does not permit metadata object names to be represented by parameters in DDL statements. With this language you can create many of the objects used in SQL, this language is standard and is supported by most database vendors in its standard form. Many of them also extends its functionality for proprietary products.
QUESTION NO: 180 Which division of the Orange Book deals with discretionary protection (need-to-know)? A. D B. C C. B D. A Answer: B COMMENTS: The C division of the Orange Book deals discretionary (need-to-know) protection and, through the inclusion of audit capabilitie s, for accountability of subjects and the actions they initiate. This information can be checked in the orange book. Just make a search online through it with the words “discretionary protection”.
QUESTION NO: 181
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The Diffie -Hellman algorithm is used for? A. Encryption B. Digital signature C. Key exchange D. Non-repudiation Answer: C COMMENTS: Diffie Hellman is a Key exchange algorithm, its strength its in the difficulty of computing discrete logarithms in a finite field generated by a large primary number. Although RSA and Diffie Hellman are similar in mathematical theory, their implementation is somewhat different. This algorithm has been released to the public. It’s the primary alternative to the RSA algorithm for key exchange.
QUESTION NO: 182 Primary run when time and tape space permits, and is used for the system archive or baselined tape sets is the? A. Full backup method. B. Incremental backup method. C. Differential backup method. D. Tape backup method.
Answer: A COMMENTS: “Full” backup method provides a baseline for our systems for Restore; the full backup must be done at least once regardless of the method you are using to make backups. It’s very common to use full backups in combination with incremental or differential ones to decrease the backup time (however you increment the restore time with incremental and differential) because it takes the largest time to complete. You always need to begin a system restoration from your baseline, and this baseline is the Full Backup.
QUESTION NO: 183 Which of the following teams should not be included in an organization’s contingency plan? A. Damage assessment team. B. Hardware salvage team. C. Tiger team. D. Legal affairs team. Answer: C COMMENTS: In the computer industry, a tiger team is a group of programmers or users who volunteer or are hired to expose errors or security holes in new software or to find out why a computer network's security
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is being broken. In hiring or recruiting volunteers for a tiger team, some software developers advise others to be sure that tiger team members don't include crackers, who might use their special knowledge of the software to disable or compromise it in the future. We don’t need a tiger team inside our contingency plan, however, we do need someone to assest the damage, the hardware and legal affairs.
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Section B – practice questions QUESTION NO: 1 Covert channel is a communication channel that can be used for: A. Hardening the system. B. Violating the security policy. C. Protecting the DMZ. D. Strengthening the security policy. Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 2 To ensure that integrity is attainted through the Clark and Wilson model, certain rules are needed. These rules are: A. Processing rules and enforcement rules. B. Integrity-bouncing rules. C. Certification rules and enforcement rules. D. Certification rules and general rules.
Answer: C
QUESTION NO: 3 What was introduces for circumventing difficulties in classic approaches to computer security by limiting damages produces by malicious programs? A. Integrity-preserving B. Ref Mon C. Integrity-monitoring D. Non-Interference Answer: D
QUESTION NO: 4 What is an indirect way to transmit information with no explicit reading of confidential information? A. Covert channels
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B. Backdoor C. Timing channels D. Overt channels
Answer: A
QUESTION NO: 5 Which of the following are the limitations of the BLP model? A. No policies for changing access data control. B. All of the choices. C. Contains covert channels. D. Static in nature. Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 6 Which of the following are the two most well known access control models? A. Lattice and Biba B. Bell LaPadula and Biba C. Bell LaPadula and Chinese war D. Bell LaPadula and Info Flow Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 7 What can be defined as a formal security model for the integrity of subjects and objects in a system? A. Biba B. Bell LaPadulaLattice C. Lattice D. Info Flow Answer: A
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QUESTION NO: 8 Which of the following is best known for capturing security requirements of commercial applications? A. Lattice B. Biba C. Bell LaPadula D. Clark and Wilson Answer: D
QUESTION NO: 9 The Clark Wilson model has its emphasis on: A. Security B. Integrity C. Accountability D. Confidentiality Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 10 Which of the following is a state machine model capturing confidentiality aspects of access control? A. Clarke Wilson B. Bell-LaPadula C. Chinese Wall D. Lattice Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 11 With the BLP model, access permissions are defined through: A. Filter rules B. Security labels C. Access Control matrix D. Profiles
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Answer: C
QUESTION NO: 12 With the BLP model, security policies prevent information flowing downwards from a: A. Low security level B. High security level C. Medium security level D. Neutral security level Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 13 When will BLP consider the information flow that occurs? A. When a subject alters on object. B. When a subject accesses an object. C. When a subject observer an object. D. All of the choices. Answer: D
QUESTION NO: 14 Separation of duties is valuable in deterring: A. DoS B. external intruder C. fraud D. trojan house Answer: C
QUESTION NO: 15 What principle requires that for particular sets of transactions, no single individual be allowed to execute all transactions within the set? A. Use of rights
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B. Balance of power C. Separation of duties D. Fair use
Answer: C
QUESTION NO: 16 Separation of duty can be: A. Dynamic only B. Encrypted C. Static only D. Static or dynamic Answer: D
QUESTION NO: 17 Who should determine the appropriate sensitivity classifications of information? A. Owner B. Server C. Administrator D. User Answer: A
QUESTION NO: 18 Who should determine the appropriate access control of information? A. Owner B. User C. Administrator D. Server Answer: A
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QUESTION NO: 19 What principle requires that a user be given no more privilege then necessary to perform a job? A. Principle of aggregate privilege. B. Principle of most privilege. C. Principle of effective privilege. D. Principle of least privilege. Answer: D
QUESTION NO: 20 To ensure least privilege requires that __________ is identified. A. what the users privilege owns B. what the users job is C. what the users cost is D. what the users group is Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 21 The concept of least privilege currently exists within the context of: A. ISO B. TCSEC C. OSI D. IEFT Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 22 Enforcing minimum privileges for general system users can be easily achieved through the use of: A. TSTEC B. RBAC C. TBAC D. IPSEC
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Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 23 Which of the following are potential firewall problems that should be logged? A. Reboot B. All of the choices. C. Proxies restarted. D. Changes to configuration file. Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 24 Which of the following are security events on Unix that should be logged? A. All of the choices. B. Use of Setgid. C. Change of permissions on system files. D. Use of Setuid. Answer: A
QUESTION NO: 25 What process determines who is trusted for a given purpose? A. Identification B. Authorization C. Authentication D. Accounting Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 26 Which of the following tools can you use to assess your networks vulnerability? A. ISS B. All of the choices.
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C. SATAN D. Ballista
Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 27 Which of the following should NOT be logged for performance problems? A. CPU load. B. Percentage of use. C. Percentage of idle time. D. None of the choices. Answer: D
QUESTION NO: 28 Which of the following should be logged for security problems? A. Use of mount command. B. Percentage of idle time. C. Percentage of use. D. None of the choices. Answer: A
QUESTION NO: 29 Which of the following services should be logged for security purpose? A. bootp B. All of the choices. C. sunrpc D. tftp Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 30
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Who should NOT have access to the log files? A. Security staff. B. Internal audit staff. C. System administration staff. D. Manager’s secretary. Answer: D
QUESTION NO: 31 Which of the following correctly describe the use of the collected logs? A. They are used in the passive monitoring process only. B. They are used in the active monitoring process only. C. They are used in the active and passive monitoring process. D. They are used in the archiving process only. Answer: C
QUESTION NO: 32 All logs are kept on archive for a period of time. What determines this period of time? A. Administrator preferences. B. MTTR C. Retention polices D. MTTF Answer: C
QUESTION NO: 33 Logs must be secured to prevent: A. Creation, modification, and destruction. B. Modification, deletion, and initialization. C. Modification, deletion, and destruction. D. Modification, deletion, and inspection. Answer: C
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QUESTION NO: 34 To ensure dependable and secure logging, all computers must have their clock synchronized to: A. A central timeserver. B. The log time stamp. C. The respective local times. D. None of the choices. Answer: A
QUESTION NO: 35 To ensure dependable and secure logging, logging information traveling on the network should be: A. Stored B. Encrypted C. Isolated D. Monitored Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 36 The activity that consists of collecting information that will be used for monitoring is called: A. Logging B. Troubleshooting C. Auditing D. Inspecting Answer: A
QUESTION NO: 37 How often should logging be run? A. Once every week. B. Always C. Once a day.
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D. During maintenance.
Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 38 If the computer system being used contains confidential information, users must not: A. Leave their computer without first logging off. B. Share their desks. C. Encrypt their passwords. D. Communicate Answer: A
QUESTION NO: 39 Security is a process that is: A. Continuous B. Indicative C. Examined D. Abnormal Answer: A
QUESTION NO: 40 Which of the following user items can be shared? A. Password B. Home directory C. None of the choices. Answer: C
QUESTION NO: 41 Root login should only be allowed via:
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A. Rsh B. System console C. Remote program D. VNC
Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 42 What should you do to the user accounts as soon as employment is terminated? A. Disable the user accounts and erase immediately the data kept. B. Disable the user accounts and have the data kept for a specific period of time. C. None of the choices. D. Maintain the user accounts and have the data kept for a specific period of time. Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 43 Access to the _________ account on a Unix server must be limited to only the system administrators that must absolutely have this level of access. A. Superuser of inetd. B. Manager or root. C. Fsf or root D. Superuser or root.
Answer: D
QUESTION NO: 44 Which of the following correctly describe “good” security practice? A. Accounts should be monitored regularly. B. You should have a procedure in place to verify password strength. C. You should ensure that there are no accounts without passwords. D. All of the choices. Answer: D
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QUESTION NO: 45 LOMAC is a security enhancement for what operating system? A. Linux B. Netware C. Solaris Answer: A
QUESTION NO: 46 LOMAC uses what Access Control method to protect the integrity of processes and data? A. Linux based EFS. B. Low Water-Mark Mandatory Access Control. C. Linux based NFS. D. High Water-Mark Mandatory Access Control. Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 47 On Linux, LOMAC is implemented as: A. Virtual addresses B. Registers C. Kernel built in functions D. Loadable kernel module Answer: D
QUESTION NO: 48 Which of the following is an operating system security architecture that provides flexible support for security policies? A. ASKit B. LOMAC C. SE Linux D. Flash
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Answer:
QUESTION NO: 49 What is the me thod of coordinating access to resources based on the listening of permitted IP addresses? A. MAC B. ACL C. DAC D. None of the choices.
Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 50 With RBAC, each user can be assigned: A. One or more roles. B. Only one role. C. A token role. D. A security token. Answer: A
QUESTION NO: 51 With RBAC, roles are: A. Based on labels. B. All equal C. Hierarchical D. Based on flows. Answer: C
QUESTION NO: 52
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With __________, access decisions are based on the roles that individual users have as part of an organization. A. Server based access control. B. Rule based access control. C. Role based access control. D. Token based access control. Answer: C
QUESTION NO: 53 Under Role based access control, access rights are grouped by: A. Policy name B. Rules C. Role name D. Sensitivity label Answer: C
QUESTION NO: 54 Which of the following will you consider as a “role” under a role based access control system? A. Bank rules B. Bank computer C. Bank teller D. Bank network Answer: C
QUESTION NO: 55 Role based access control is attracting increasing attention particularly for what applications? A. Scientific B. Commercial C. Security D. Technical
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Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 56 What is one advantage of deploying Role based access control in large networked applications? A. Higher security B. Higher bandwidth C. User friendliness D. Lower cost Answer: D
QUESTION NO: 57 DAC and MAC policies can be effectively replaced by: A. Rule based access control. B. Role based access control. C. Server based access control. D. Token based access control Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 58 Which of the following correctly describe Role based access control? A. It allows you to specify and enforce enterprise-specific security policies in a way that maps to your user profile groups. B. It allows you to specify and enforce enterprise-specific security policies in a way that maps to your organizations structure. C. It allows you to specify and enforce enterprise-specific security policies in a way that maps to your ticketing system. D. It allows you to specify and enforce enterprise-specific security policies in a way that maps to your ACL. Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 59
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Which of the following RFC talks about Rule Based Security Policy? A. 1316 B. 1989 C. 2717 D. 2828 Answer: D
QUESTION NO: 60 With Rule Based Security Policy, a security policy is based on: A. Global rules imposed for all users. B. Local rules imposed for some users. C. Global rules imposed for no body. D. Global rules imposed for only the local users. Answer: A
QUESTION NO: 61 With Rule Based Security Policy, global rules usually rely on comparison of the _______ of the resource being accessed. A. A group of users. B. Users C. Sensitivity D. Entities
Answer: C
QUESTION NO: 62 What control is based on a specific profile for each user? A. Lattice based access control. B. Directory based access control. C. Rule based access control. D. ID based access control.
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Answer: C
QUESTION NO: 63 In a very large environment, which of the following is an administrative burden? A. Rule based access control. B. Directory based access control. C. Lattice based access control D. ID bases access control Answer: A
QUESTION NO: 64 Which of the following is a feature of the Rule based access control? A. The use of profile. B. The use of information flow label. C. The use of data flow diagram. D. The use of token. Answer: A
QUESTION NO: 65 A firewall can be classified as a: A. Directory based access control. B. Rule based access control. C. Lattice based access control. D. ID based access control. Answer: D
QUESTION NO: 66 The Lattice Based Access Control model was developed MAINLY to deal with: A. Affinity B. None of the choices.
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C. Confidentiality D. Integrity
Answer: C
QUESTION NO: 67 With the Lattice Based Access Control model, a security class is also called a: A. Control factor B. Security label C. Mandatory number D. Serial ID Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 68 Under the Lattice Based Access Control model, a container of information is a(n): A. Object B. Model C. Label Answer: A
QUESTION NO: 69 What Access Control model was developed to deal mainly with information flow in computer systems? A. Lattice Based B. Integrity Based C. Flow Based D. Area Based
Answer: A
QUESTION NO: 70
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The Lattice Based Access Control model was developed to deal mainly with ___________ in computer systems. A. Access control B. Information flow C. Message routes D. Encryption Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 71 In the Lattice Based Access Control model, controls are applied to: A. Scripts B. Objects C. Models D. Factors Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 72 With Discretionary access controls, who determines who has access and what privilege they have? A. End users. B. None of the choices. C. Resource owners. D. Only the administrators. Answer: C
QUESTION NO: 73 What defines an imposed access control level? A. MAC B. DAC C. SAC D. CAC
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Answer: A
QUESTION NO: 74 Under MAC, who can change the category of a resource? A. All users. B. Administrators only. C. All managers. D. None of the choices. Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 75 Under MAC, who may grant a right of access that is explicitly forbidden in the access control policy? A. None of the choices. B. All users. C. Administrators only. D. All managers. Answer: A
QUESTION NO: 76 You may describe MAC as: A. Opportunistic B. Prohibitive C. None of the choices. D. Permissive Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 77 Under MAC, which of the following is true? A. All that is expressly permitted is forbidden. B. All that is not expressly permitted is forbidden.
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C. All that is not expressly permitted is not forbidden. D. None of the choices.
Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 78 Under MAC, a clearance is a: A. Sensitivity B. Subject C. Privilege D. Object Answer: C
QUESTION NO: 79 Under MAC, a file is a(n): A. Privilege B. Subject C. Sensitivity D. Object Answer: D
QUESTION NO: 80 Under MAC, classification reflects: A. Sensitivity B. Subject C. Privilege D. Object Answer: A
QUESTION NO: 81
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MAC is used for: A. Defining imposed access control level. B. Defining user preferences. C. None of the choices. D. Defining discretionary access control level. Answer: A
QUESTION NO: 82 With MAC, who may make decisions that bear on policy? A. None of the choices. B. All users. C. Only the administrator. D. All users except guests. Answer: C
QUESTION NO: 83 With MAC, who may NOT make decisions that derive from policy? A. All users except the administrator. B. The administrator. C. The power users. D. The guests. Ans wer: A
QUESTION NO: 84 Under the MAC control system, what is required? A. Performance monitoring B. Labelling C. Sensing D. None of the choices Answer: B
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QUESTION NO: 85 Access controls that are not based on the policy are characterized as: A. Secret controls B. Mandatory controls C. Discretionary controls D. Corrective controls Answer: C
QUESTION NO: 86 DAC are characterized by many organizations as: A. Need-to-know controls B. Preventive controls C. Mandatory adjustable controls D. None of the choices Answer: A
QUESTION NO: 87 Which of the following correctly describe DAC? A. It is the most secure method. B. It is of the B2 class. C. It can extend beyond limiting which subjects can gain what type of access to which objects. D. It is of the B1 class. Answer: C
QUESTION NO: 88 Under DAC, a subjects rights must be ________ when it leaves an organization altogether. A. recycled B. terminated C. suspended
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D. resumed
Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 89 Audit trail is a category of what control? A. System, Manual B. Detective, Technical C. User, Technical D. Detective, Manual Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 90 IDS is a category of what control? A. Detective, Manual B. Detective, Technical C. User, Technical D. System, Manual Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 91 Which of the following is not a detective technical control? A. Intrusion detection system B. Violation reports C. Honeypot D. None of the choices. Answer: D
QUESTION NO: 92 ________ Technical Controls warn of technical Access Control violations.
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A. Elusive B. Descriptive C. Corrective D. Detective
Answer: D
QUESTION NO: 93 A two factor authentication method is considered as a: A. Technical control B. Patching control C. Corrective control D. Logical control Answer: D
QUESTION NO: 94 Which of the following will you NOT consider as technical controls? A. Access Control software B. Man trap C. Passwords D. Antivirus Software Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 95 ___________________ are the technical ways of restricting who or what can access system resources. A. Preventive Manual Controls B. Detective Technical Controls C. Preventive Circuit Controls D. Preventive Technical Controls Answer: D
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QUESTION NO: 96 Preventive Technical Controls is usually built: A. By using MD5. B. Into an operating system. C. By security officer. D. By security administrator. Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 97 Preventive Technical Controls cannot: A. Protect the OS from unauthorized modification. B. Protect confidential information from being disclosed to unauthorized persons. C. Protect the OS from unauthorized manipulation. D. Protect users from being monitored. Answer: D
QUESTION NO: 98 How do Preventive Technical Controls protect system integrity and availability? A. By limiting the number of threads only. B. By limiting the number of system variables. C. By limiting the number of function calls only. D. By limiting the number of users and/or processes. Answer: D
QUESTION NO: 99 Sensor is: A. Logical, Physical B. Corrective, Logical C. Detective, Physical D. Corrective, Physical
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Answer: C
QUESTION NO: 100 Motion detector is a feature of: A. Corrective Logical Controls. B. Logical Physical Controls. C. Corrective Physical Controls. D. Detective Physical Controls.
Answer: D
QUESTION NO: 101 Closed circuit TV is a feature of: A. Detective Physical Controls B. Corrective Physical Controls C. Corrective Logical Controls D. Logical Physical Controls Answer: A
QUESTION NO: 102 Access control is the collection of mechanisms that permits managers of a system to exercise influence over the use of: A. A man guard B. An IS system C. A threshold D. A Trap
Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 103
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Access control allows you to exercise directing influence over which of the following aspects of a system? A. Behavior, user, and content provider. B. Behavior, use, and content. C. User logs and content. D. None of the choic es. Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 104 The principle of accountability is a principle by which specific action cab be traced back to: A. A policy B. An individual C. A group D. A manager Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 105 The principle of _________ s a principle by which specific action can be traced back to anyone of your users. A. Security B. Integrity C. Accountability D. Policy
Answer: C
QUESTION NO: 106 According to the principle of accountability, what action should be traceable to a specific user? A. Material B. Intangible C. Tangible D. Significant
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Answer: D
QUESTION NO: 107 A significant action has a state that enables actions on an ADP system to be traced to individuals who may then be held responsible. The action do NOT include: A. Violations of security policy. B. Attempted violations of security policy. C. Non-violations of security policy. D. Attempted violations of allowed actions.
Answer: C
QUESTION NO: 108 ____________ is the means by which the ability to do something with a computer resource is explicitly enabled or restricted. A. Access control B. Type of access C. System resource D. Work permit
Answer: A
QUESTION NO: 109 The ability to do something with a computer resource can be explicitly enabled or restricted through: A. Physical and system-based controls. B. Theoretical and system-based controls. C. Mental and system-based controls. D. Physical and trap-based controls. Answer: A
QUESTION NO: 110 The main categories of access control do NOT include:
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A. Administrative Access Control B. Logical Access Control C. Random Access Control D. Physical Access Control
Answer: C
QUESTION NO: 111 You have very strict Physical Access controls. At the same time you have loose Logical Access Controls. What is true about this setting? A. None of the choices. B. It can 100% secure your environment. C. It may secure your environment. D. It may not secure your environment.
Answer: D
QUESTION NO: 112 Which of the following is NOT a type of access control? A. Intrusive B. Deterrent C. Detective D. Preventive Answer: A
QUESTION NO: 113 As a type of access control, which of the following asks for avoiding occurrence? A. Preventive B. Deterrent C. Intrusive D. Detective Answer: A
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QUESTION NO: 114 As a type of access control, which of the following asks for identifying occurrences? A. Deterrent B. Preventive C. Detective D. Intrusive Answer: C
QUESTION NO: 115 As a type of access control, which of the following asks for discouraging occurrence? A. Detective B. Intrusive C. Deterrent D. Preventive Answer: C
QUESTION NO: 116 As a type of access control, which of the following asks for restoring controls? A. Deterrent B. Intrusive C. Corrective D. Preventive Answer: C
QUESTION NO: 117 What type of access control focuses on restoring resources? A. Recovery B. Preventive C. Intrusive
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D. Corrective
Answer: A
QUESTION NO: 118 What scheme includes the requirement that the system maintain the separation of duty requirement expressed in the access control triples? A. Bella B. Lattice C. Clark-Wilson D. Bell-LaPadula
Answer: C
QUESTION NO: 119 What is an access control model? A. A formal description of access control ID specification. B. A formal description of security policy. C. A formal description of a sensibility label. D. None of the choices. Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 120 Which of the following is true about MAC? A. It is more flexible than DAC. B. It is more secure than DAC. C. It is less secure than DAC. D. It is more scalable than DAC. Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 121
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The access matrix model consists of which of the following parts? (Choose all that apply) A. A function that returns an objects type. B. A list of subjects. C. All of the choices. D. A list of objects. Answer: C
QUESTION NO: 122 The access matrix model has which of the following common implementations? A. Access control lists and capabilities. B. Access control lists. C. Capabilities. D. Access control list and availability. Answer: A
QUESTION NO: 123 What can be accomplished by storing on each subject a list of rights the subject has for every object? A. Object B. Capabilities C. Key ring D. Rights Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 124 Which of the following is true regarding a secure access model? A. Secure information cannot flow to a more secure user. B. Secure information cannot flow to a less secure user. C. Secure information can flow to a less secure user. D. None of the choices. Answer: B
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QUESTION NO: 125 In the Information Flow Model, what relates two versions of the same object? A. Flow B. State C. Transformation D. Successive points Answer: A
QUESTION NO: 126 In the Information Flow Model, what acts as a type of dependency? A. State B. Successive points C. Transformation D. Flow Answer: D
QUESTION NO: 127 The lattice-based model aims at protecting against: A. Illegal attributes. B. None of the choices. C. Illegal information flow among the entities. D. Illegal access rights Answer: C
QUESTION NO: 128 Which of the following are the components of the Chinese wall model? A. Conflict if interest classes. B. All of the choices. C. Subject
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D. Company Datasets.
Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 129 Which of the following correctly describe the difference between identification and authentication? A. Authentication is a means to verify who you are, while identification is what you are authorized to perform. B. Identification is a means to verify who you are, while authentication is what you are authorized to perform. C. Identification is another name of authentication. D. Identification is the child process of authentication. Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 130 Identification establishes: A. Authentication B. Accountability C. Authorization D. None of the choices. Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 131 Identification usually takes the form of: A. Login ID. B. User password. C. None of the choices. D. Passphrase Answer: A
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QUESTION NO: 132 Authentication is typically based upon: A. Something you have. B. Something you know. C. Something you are. D. All of the choices. Answer: D
QUESTION NO: 133 A password represents: A. Something you have. B. Something you know. C. All of the choices. D. Something you are. Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 134 A smart card represents: A. Something you are. B. Something you know. C. Something you have. D. All of the choices. Answer: C
QUESTION NO: 135 Retinal scans check for: A. Something you are. B. Something you have. C. Something you know. D. All of the choices.
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Answer: A
QUESTION NO: 136 Which of the following is the most commonly used check on something you know? A. One time password B. Login phrase C. Retinal D. Password Answer: D
QUESTION NO: 137 Software generated password has what drawback? A. Password not easy to remember. B. Password too secure. C. None of the choices. D. Password unbreakable. Answer: A
QUESTION NO: 138 Which of the following will you consider as most secure? A. Password B. One time password C. Login phrase D. Login ID Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 139 What type of password makes use of two totally unrelated words? A. Login phrase B. One time password
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C. Composition D. Login ID
Answer: C
QUESTION NO: 140 Which of the following are the advantages of using passphrase? A. Difficult to crack using brute force. B. Offers numerous characters. C. Easier to remember. D. All of the choices. Answer: D
QUESTION NO: 141 Which of the following is the correct account policy you should follow? A. All of the choices. B. All active accounts must have a password. C. All active accounts must have a long and complex pass phrase. D. All inactive accounts must have a password. Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 142 On UNIX systems, passwords shall be kept: A. In any location on behalf of root. B. In a shadow password file. C. In the /etc/passwd file. D. In root. Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 143
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Which of the following are the correct guidelines of password deployment? A. Passwords must be masked. B. All of the choices. C. Password must have a minimum of 8 characters. D. Password must contain a mix of both alphabetic and non-alphabetic characters. Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 144 Why would a 16 characters password not desirable? A. Hard to remember B. Offers numerous characters. C. Difficult to crack using brute force. D. All of the choices. Answer: A
QUESTION NO: 145 Which of the following is NOT a good password deployment guideline? A. Passwords must not be he same as user id or login id. B. Password aging must be enforced on all systems. C. Password must be easy to memorize. D. Passwords must be changed at least once every 60 days, depending on your environment. Answer: C
QUESTION NO: 146 Routing password can be restricted by the use of: A. Password age B. Password history C. Complex password D. All of the choices Answer: B
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QUESTION NO: 147 Which of the following is an effective measure against a certain type of brute force password attack? A. Password used must not be a word found in a dictionary. B. Password history is used. C. Password reuse is not allowed. D. None of the choices. Answer: A
QUESTION NO: 148 Which of the following are measures against password sniffing? A. Passwords must not be sent through email in plain text. B. Passwords must not be stored in plain text on any electronic media. C. You may store passwords electronically if it is encrypted. D. All of the choices. Answer: D
QUESTION NO: 149 What should you do immediately if the root password is compromised? A. Change the root password. B. Change all passwords. C. Increase the value of password age. D. Decrease the value of password history. Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 150 Which of the following is the most secure way to distribute password? A. Employees must send in an email before obtaining a password. B. Employees must show ip in person and present proper identification before obtaining a password. C. Employees must send in a signed email before obtaining a password.
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D. None of the choices.
Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 151 Which of the following can be used to protect your system against brute force password attack? A. Decrease the value of password history. B. Employees must send in a signed email before obtaining a password. C. After three unsuccessful attempts to enter a password, the account will be locked. D. Increase the value of password age. Answer: C
QUESTION NO: 152 You should keep audit trail on which of the following items? A. Password usage. B. All unsuccessful logon. C. All of the choices. D. All successful logon. Answer: C
QUESTION NO: 153 What type of authentication takes advantage of an individuals unique physical characteristics in order to authenticate that persons identity? A. Password B. Token C. Ticket Granting D. Biometric
Answer: D
QUESTION NO: 154
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Which of the following will you consider as the MOST secure way of authentication? A. Biometric B. Password C. Token D. Ticket Granting Answer: A
QUESTION NO: 155 Biometric performance is most commonly measured in terms of: A. FRR and FAR B. FAC and ERR C. IER and FAR D. FRR and GIC Answer: A
QUESTION NO: 156 What is known as the probability that you are not authenticated to access your account? A. ERR B. FRR C. MTBF D. FAR Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 157 What is known as the chance that someone other than you is granted access to your account? A. ERR B. FAR C. FRR D. MTBF Answer: B
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QUESTION NO: 158 You are comparing biometric systems. Security is the top priority. A low ________ is most important in this regard. A. FAR B. FRR C. MTBF D. ERR
Answer: A
QUESTION NO: 159 The quality of finger prints is crucial to maintain the necessary: A. FRR B. ERR and FAR C. FAR D. FRR and FAR Answer: D
QUESTION NO: 160 By requiring the user to use more than one finger to authenticate, you can: A. Provide statistical improvements in EAR. B. Provide statistical improvements in MTBF. C. Provide statistical improvements in FRR. D. Provide statistical improvements in ERR. Answer: C
QUESTION NO: 161 Which of the following is being considered as the most reliable kind of personal identification? A. Token B. Finger print
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C. Password D. Ticket Granting
Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 162 Which of the following methods is more microscopic and will analyze the direction of the ridges of the fingerprints for matching? A. None of the choices. B. Flow direct C. Ridge matching D. Minutia matching
Answer: D
QUESTION NO: 163 Which of the following are the types of eye scan in use today? A. Retinal scans and body scans. B. Retinal scans and iris scans. C. Retinal scans and reflective scans. D. Reflective scans and iris scans. Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 164 Which of the following eye scan methods is considered to be more intrusive? A. Iris scans B. Retinal scans C. Body scans D. Reflective scans Answer: B
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QUESTION NO: 165 Which of the following offers greater accuracy then the others? A. Facial recognition B. Iris scanning C. Finger scanning D. Voice recognition Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 166 Which of the following are the valid categories of hand geometry scanning? A. Electrical and image-edge detection. B. Mechanical and image-edge detection. C. Logical and image-edge detection. D. Mechanical and image-ridge detection. Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 167 In the world of keystroke dynamics, what represents the amount of time you hold down in a particular key? A. Dwell time B. Flight time C. Dynamic time D. Systems time
Answer: A
QUESTION NO: 168 In the world of keystroke dynamics, what represents the amount of time it takes a person to switch between keys? A. Dynamic time B. Flight time C. Dwell time D. Systems time.
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Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 169 Which of the following are the benefits of Keystroke dynamics? A. Low cost B. Unintrusive device C. Transparent D. All of the choices.
Answer: D
QUESTION NO: 170 DSV as an identification method check against users: A. Fingerprints B. Signature C. Keystrokes D. Facial expression Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 171 Signature identification systems analyze what areas of an individual’s signature? A. All of the choices EXCEPT the signing rate. B. The specific features of the signature. C. The specific features of the process of signing one’s signature. D. The signature rate. Answer: A
QUESTION NO: 172 What are the advantages to using voice identification?
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A. All of the choices. B. Timesaving C. Reliability D. Flexibility
Answer: A
QUESTION NO: 173 What are the methods used in the process of facial identification? A. None of the choices. B. Detection and recognition. C. Scanning and recognition. D. Detection and scanning. Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 174 In the process of facial identification, the basic underlying recognition technology of facial identification involves: A. Eigenfeatures of eigenfaces. B. Scanning and recognition. C. Detection and scanning. D. None of the choices.
Answer: A
QUESTION NO: 175 Which of the following is a facial feature identification product that can employ artificial intelligence and can require the system to learn from experience? A. All of the choices. B. Digital nervous system. C. Neural networking D. DSV
Answer: C
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QUESTION NO: 176 What is typically used to illustrate the comparative strengths and weaknesses of each biometric technology? A. Decipher Chart B. Zephyr Chart C. Cipher Chart D. Zapper Chart
Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 177 In terms of the order of effectiveness, which of the following technologies is the most affective? A. Fingerprint B. Iris scan C. Keystroke pattern D. Retina scan Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 178 In terms of the order of effectiveness, which of the following technologies is the least effective? A. Voice pattern B. Signature C. Keystroke pattern D. Hand geometry Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 179 In terms of the order of acceptance, which of the following technologies is the MOST accepted? A. Hand geometry B. Keystroke pattern
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C. Voice Pattern D. Signature
Answer: C
QUESTION NO: 180 In terms of the order of acceptance, which of the following technologies is the LEAST accepted? A. Fingerprint B. Iris C. Handprint D. Retina patterns Answer: D
QUESTION NO: 181 Token, as a way to identify user, is subject to what type of error? A. Token error B. Decrypt error C. Human error D. Encrypt error Answer: C
QUESTION NO: 182 Which of the following factors may render a token based solution unusable? A. Token length B. Card size C. Battery lifespan D. None of the choices. Answer: C
QUESTION NO: 183
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Memory only card works based on: A. Something you have. B. Something you know. C. None of the choices. D. Something you know and something you have. Answer: D
QUESTION NO: 184 Which of the following is a disadvantage of memory only card? A. High cost to develop. B. High cost to operate. C. Physically infeasible. D. Easy to counterfeit. Answer: D
QUESTION NO: 185 The word “smart card” has meanings of: A. Personal identity token containing IC-s. B. Processor IC card. C. IC card with ISO 7816 interface. D. All of the choices. Answer: D
QUESTION NO: 186 Processor card contains which of the following components? A. Memory and hard drive. B. Memory and flash. C. Memory and processor. D. Cache and processor. Answer: C
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QUESTION NO: 187 Attacks on smartcards generally fall into what categories? A. Physical attacks. B. Trojan Horse attacks. C. Logical attacks. D. All of the choices, plus Social Engineering attacks. Answer: D
QUESTION NO: 188 What type of attacks occurs when a smartcard is operating under normal physical conditions, but sensitive information is gained by examining the bytes going to and from the smartcard? A. Physical attacks. B. Logical attacks. C. Trojan Horse attacks. D. Social Engineering attacks.
Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 189 What type of attacks occurs when normal physical conditions are altered in order to gain access to sensitive information on the smartcard? A. Physical attacks B. Logical attacks C. Trojan Horse attacks D. Social Engineering attacks Answer: A
QUESTION NO: 190 What type pf attacks occurs when a rouge application has been planted on an unsuspecting user’s workstation?
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A. Physical attacks B. Logical attacks C. Trojan Horse attacks D. Social Engineering attacks
Answer: C
QUESTION NO: 191 What is an effective countermeasure against Trojan horse attack that targets smart cards? A. Singe-access device driver architecture. B. Handprint driver architecture. C. Fingerprint driver architecture. D. All of the choices. Answer: A
QUESTION NO: 192 Which of the following attacks could be the most successful when the security technology is properly implemented and configure d? A. Logical attacks B. Physical attacks C. Social Engineering attacks D. Trojan Horse attacks
Answer: C
QUESTION NO: 193 What are the valid types of one time password generator? A. All of the choices. B. Transaction synchronous C. Synchronous/PIN synchronous D. Asynchronous/PIN asynchronous Answer: A
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QUESTION NO: 194 What are the benefits of job rotation? A. All of the choices. B. Trained backup in case of emergencies. C. Protect against fraud. D. Cross training to employees. Answer: A
QUESTION NO: 195 In order to avoid mishandling of media or information, you should consider to use: A. Labeling B. Token C. Ticket D. SLL Answer: A
QUESTION NO: 196 In order to avoid mishandling of media or information, which of the following should be labeled? A. All of the choices. B. Printed copies C. Tape D. Floppy disks Answer: A
QUESTION NO: 197 A method for a user to identify and present credentials only once to a system is known as: A. SEC B. IPSec C. SSO D. SSL
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Answer: C
QUESTION NO: 198 Which of the following correctly describe the features of SSO? A. More efficient log-on. B. More costly to administer. C. More costly to setup. D. More key exchanging involved.
Answer: A
QUESTION NO: 199 What is a protocol used for carrying authentication, authorization, and configuration information between a Network Access Server and a shared Authentication Server? A. IPSec B. RADIUS C. L2TP D. PPTP
Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 200 RADIUS is de fined by which RFC? A. 2168 B. 2148 C. 2138 D. 2158 Answer: C
QUESTION NO: 201 In a RADIUS architecture, which of the following acts as a client?
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A. A network Access Server. B. None of the choices. C. The end user. D. The authentic ation server.
Answer: A
QUESTION NO: 202 In a RADIUS architecture, which of the following can ac as a proxy client? A. The end user. B. A Network Access Server. C. The RADIUS authentication server. D. None of the choices. Answer: C
QUESTION NO: 203 What protocol was UDP based and mainly intended to provide validation of dial up user login passwords? A. PPTP B. L2TP C. IPSec D. TACACS
Answer: D
QUESTION NO: 204 Which of the following are proprietarily implemented by CISCO? A. RADIUS+ B. TACACS C. XTACACS and TACACS+ D. RADIUS Answer: C
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QUESTION NO: 205 In Unix, which file is required for you to set up an environment such that every used on the other host is a trusted user that can log into this host without authentication? A. /etc/shadow B. /etc/host.equiv C. /etc/passwd D. None of the choices.
Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 206 Information security is the protection of data. Information will be protected mainly based on: A. Its sensitivity to the company. B. Its confidentiality. C. Its value. D. All of the choices. Answer: D
QUESTION NO: 207 Which of the following actions can increase the cost of an exhaustive attack? A. Increase the age of a password. B. Increase the length of a password. C. None of the choices. D. Increase the history of a password. Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 208 Which of the following actions can make a cryptographic key more resistant to an exhaustive attack? A. None of the choices. B. Increase the length of a key.
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C. Increase the age of a key. D. Increase the history of a key.
Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 209 What attack involves actions to mimic one’s identity? A. Brute force B. Exhaustive C. Social engineering D. Spoofing Answer: D
QUESTION NO: 210 What attack takes advantage of operating system buffer overflows? A. Spoofing B. Brute force C. DoS D. Exhaustive Answer: C
QUESTION NO: 211 What attack is primarily based on the fragmentation implementation of IP and large ICMP packet size? A. Exhaustive B. Brute force C. Ping of Death D. Spoofing
Answer: C
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QUESTION NO: 212 Land attack attacks a target by: A. Producing large volume of ICMP echos. B. Producing fragmented IP packets. C. Attacking an established TCP connection. D. None of the choices. Answer: C
QUESTION NO: 213 What attack is primarily based on the fragmentation implementation of IP? A. Teardrop B. Exhaustive C. Spoofing D. Brute force Answer: A
QUESTION NO: 214 What attack floods networks with broadcast traffic so that the network is congested? A. Spoofing B. Teardrop C. Brute force D. SMURF Answer: D
QUESTION NO: 215 What attack involves repeatedly sending identical e-massage to a particular address? A. SMURF B. Brute force C. Teardrop D. Spamming
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Answer: D
QUESTION NO: 216 Which of the following attacks focus on cracking passwords? A. SMURF B. Spamming C. Teardrop D. Dictionary Answer: D
QUESTION NO: 217 Man-in-the -middle attack is a real threat to what type of communication? A. Communication based on random challenge. B. Communication based on face to face contact. C. Communication based on token. D. Communication based on asymmetric encryption. Answer: D
QUESTION NO: 218 Which of the following will you consider as a program that monitors data traveling over a network? A. Smurfer B. Sniffer C. Fragmenter D. Spoofer Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 219 Individuals who have their sole aim as breaking into a computer system are being referred to as: A. Crackers B. Sniffers
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C. Hackers D. None of the choices.
Answer: A
QUESTION NO: 220 What technology is being used to detect anomalies? A. IDS B. FRR C. Sniffing D. Capturing Answer: A
QUESTION NO: 221 IDSs verify, itemize, and characterize threats from: A. Inside your organization’s network. B. Outside your organization’s network. C. Outside and inside your organization’s network. D. The Internet. Answer: C
QUESTION NO: 222 IDS can be described in terms of what fundamental functional components? A. Response B. Information Sources C. Analysis D. All of the choices. Answer: D
QUESTION NO: 223
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What are the primary goals of intrusion detection systems? A. Accountability B. Availability C. Response D. All of the choices Answer: D
QUESTION NO: 224 What is the most common way to classify IDSs? A. Group them by information source. B. Group them by network packets. C. Group them by attackers. D. Group them by signs of intrusion. Answer: A
QUESTION NO: 225 The majority of commercial intrusion detection systems are: A. Identity-based B. Network-based C. Host-based D. Signature-based Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 226 Which of the following is a drawback of Network-based IDSs? A. It cannot analyze encrypted information. B. It is very costly to setup. C. It is very costly to manage. D. It is not effective. Answer: A
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QUESTION NO: 227 Host-based IDSs normally utilize information from which of the following sources? A. Operating system audit trails and system logs. B. Operating system audit trails and network packets. C. Network packets and system logs. D. Operating system alarms and system logs. Answer: A
QUESTION NO: 228 When comparing host based IDS with network based ID, which of the following is an obvious advantage? A. It is unaffected by switched networks. B. It cannot analyze encrypted information. C. It is not costly to setup. D. It is not costly to manage.
Answer: A
QUESTION NO: 229 You are comparing host based IDS with network based ID. Which of the following will you consider as an obvious disadvantage of host based IDS? A. It cannot analyze encrypted information. B. It is costly to remove. C. It is affected by switched networks. D. It is costly to manage. Answer: D
QUESTION NO: 230 Which of the following IDS inflict a higher performance cost on the monitored systems? A. Encryption based
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B. Host based C. Network based D. Trusted based
Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 231 Application-based IDSs normally utilize information from which of the following sources? A. Network packets and system logs. B. Operating system audit trails and network packets. C. Operating system audit trails and system logs. D. Application’s transaction log files. Answer: D
QUESTION NO: 232 What are the primary approaches IDS takes to analyze events to detect attacks? A. Misuse detection and anomaly detection. B. Log detection and anomaly detection. C. Misuse detection and early drop detection. D. Scan detection and anomaly detection. Answer: A
QUESTION NO: 233 Misuse detectors analyze system activity and identify patterns. The patterns corresponding to know attacks are called: A. Attachments B. Signatures C. Strings D. Identifications
Answe r: B
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QUESTION NO: 234 Which of the following is an obvious disadvantage of deploying misuse detectors? A. They are costly to setup. B. They are not accurate. C. They most be constantly updated with signatures of new attacks. D. They are costly to use. Answer: C
QUESTION NO: 235 What detectors identify abnormal unusual behavior on a host or network? A. None of the choices. B. Legitimate detectors. C. Anomaly detectors. D. Normal detectors. Answer: C
QUESTION NO: 236 Which of the following are the major categories of IDSs response options? A. Active responses B. Passive responses C. Hybrid D. All of the choices. Answer: D
QUESTION NO: 237 Alarms and notifications are generated by IDSs to inform users when attacks are detected. The most common form of alarm is: A. Onscreen alert B. Email C. Pager D. Icq
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Answer: A
QUESTION NO: 238 Which of the following is a valid tool that complements IDSs? A. All of the choices. B. Padded Cells C. Vulnerability Analysis Systems D. Honey Pots
Answer: A
QUESTION NO: 239 What tool do you use to determine whether a host is vulnerable to known attacks? A. Padded Cells B. Vulnerability analysis C. Honey Pots D. IDS Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 240 What tool is being used to determine whether attackers have altered system files of executables? A. File Integrity Checker B. Vulnerability Analysis Systems C. Honey Pots D. Padded Cells Answer: A
QUESTION NO: 241 What is known as decoy system designed to lure a potential attacker away from critical systems?
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A. Honey Pots B. Vulnerability Analysis Systems C. File Integrity Checker D. Padded Cells
Answer: A
QUESTION NO: 242 When the IDS detect attackers, the attackers are seamlessly transfe rred to a special host. This method is called: A. Vulnerability Analysis Systems B. Padded Cell C. Honey Pot D. File Integrity Checker
Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 243 Most computer attacks result in violation of which of the following security properties? A. Availability B. Confidentiality C. Integrity and control D. All of the choices. Answer: D
QUESTION NO: 244 What types of computer attacks are most commonly reported by IDSs? A. System penetration B. Denial of service C. System scanning D. All of the choices Answer: D
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QUESTION NO: 245 What attack is typically used for identifying the topology of the target network? A. Spoofing B. Brute force C. Teardrop D. Scanning Answer: D Note: Section A contains 183 questions , and Section B contains 245 questions. The total number of questionsa is 428.
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